Planetary Health in and from Africa

Global health governance is at a crossroads. As the world reckons with the existential threat of planetary crises (climate change, loss of biodiversity and pollution), international policy frameworks struggle to keep pace with a rapidly changing landscape in global health and public health. The recent COVID-19 pandemic brought into sharp focus the limitations of existing health governance systems, and the embedded systemic inequities and inequalities in the broader architectures and power structures of global health. The shifting landscapes of global health are further complicated by an increasingly complex planetary entanglement in the epoch of Anthropocene - the age in which humans have become a geological force. This CRG aims to go beyond critiques of global health and work towards transdisciplinary contributions, to explore what revisions and re-orientations would be most appropriate and productive, to expand engagement with planetary health issues and justice, approached from the African context, at the African Studies Centre Leiden and beyond.