[Comment] Offline: Watching the watchers (part 5)

00:00 - 10 Jan 2026

Global Health Watch 7 (GHW7) is an important intervention in the theory and practice of global health, especially at a time of upheaval and uncertainty. (I am writing these words as I listen to the news that US forces have bombed Venezuela's capital, Caracas, and captured, arrested, and indicted the country's dictator-President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores: the prospects for a rules-based world order have just swerved sharply towards danger.) The co-editors of GHW7, Ron Labonté and Chiara Bodini, have succeeded in offering alternative narratives to challenge prevailing beliefs and assumptions in global health—a discipline that rarely challenges the political and economic foundations of its work.