Webinar #222 Dr Benjamin Bronnert Walker - 100 years of mission, health & development in Ghana

Recorded on 31 October 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Benjamin Bronnert Walker An historical approach to faith-based healthcare can offer insights into how government, medical groups, public health authorities, international organisations, and spiritual communities interact over the long term. Historical analysis provides a vital (but often under-utilised) explanatory model for developing a coherent understanding of how and why faith-based providers have shaped health over many decades. Looking back allows us new insights into intractable debates as we forge shared paths forward. By interrogating the competing actors in a health landscape such as Ghana across a century of large-scale political, economic and cultural changes, we can explore how faith-based providers have informed what global health has become. Dr Benjamin Bronnert Walker is a historian of global health and religion, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the Strategic Portfolio Manager for the Diocese of Leeds in the Church of England and coordinates the Anglican Health and Community Network, the official global health network of the Anglican Communion. His book 'Religion in Global Health and Development: The Case of Twentieth Century Ghana’ was published in April 2022 by McGill-Queen's University Press. The research was funded by the Wellcome Trust and he was based in the WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Health Histories at the University of York (UK). ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠To listen live to future ICMDA webinars visit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://icmda.net/resources/webinars/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠