Allana Beavis & Derek Lai – Global Health



We hosted Physiotherapists Allana Beavis and Derek Lai from the Global Physio Podcast to discuss:

– What is global health, and what led them to learning about it
– The challenges when starting to learn and talk about global issues
– Helpful starting points to upskill
– The benefits and positives in deconstructing ideas we’ve been taught
– Takeaways from the CPA Congress
+ more

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  • “Militarized Global Apartheid” by Catherine Besteman:
    https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/699280
  • Defining global health: findings from a systematic review and thematic analysis of the literature by Salm et al.: https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/6/e005292
  • “Challenging power and unearned privilege in physiotherapy: lessons from Africa” by Stephanie Lurch et al.:
    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fresc.2023.1175531/full
  • “Signs of Inequitable Access: Users of Private Physiotherapy Services Do Not Reflect the Urban Population in Winnipeg, Manitoba” by Sandra Webber et al.:
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37324616