Faculty Research Fellow Joseph Harris Gives Book Talk at Partners in Health

Joseph Harris, an assistant professor of Sociology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a talk on his book, Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism (Cornell University Press 2017), at Partners in Health, one of the world’s leading health NGOs.

The book, which Prof. Harris presented at a Pardee Center seminar in September 2018, explores the dynamics that made universal health policies possible in resource-constrained countries like Thailand and Brazil at a time when wealthy nations struggle to make healthcare available to all. The book focuses on the often overlooked role of “professional movements,” in which democratization empowers elites — not just the masses — to forge progressive change.

Prof. Harris has also been invited to participate in a workshop called “Global Health: Bridging the Disciplinary Divides” at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo in March. The workshop aims to “examine how different disciplines approach, analyse and understand key global health challenges; if and how these different approaches impede research and policy progress; and how to overcome interdisciplinary divisions to make progress in research and policy on global health issues.”