title: The strategic geographies of global health partnerships.
abstract: Global health partnerships have been hailed as a means of addressing the global health worker shortage, bringing forth health systems strengthening and, therefore, the universal health coverage aspirations of the Sustainable Development Goals. In contrast to other critical engagements with partnerships which have tended to focus on experiences and effects of these partnerships in situ; this paper draws on the example of the UK to explore how partnership working and development agendas have become entwined. Moreover, this entwinement has ensured that GHPs are far from the "global" endeavour that might be expected of global health and instead exhibit geographies that are far more representative of the geopolitics of overseas development assistance than biomedical need.
authors.affiliation: Reader in Human Geography, Department of Geography, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom. Electronic address: clare.herrick@kcl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Clare
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Herrick
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D062306:Geography, Medical; D014943:Global Health; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Development; Geopolitics; Global health; Partnership; United Kingdom