The Knowledge Exchange

The Knowledge Exchange


Allana Beavis & Derek Lai – Global Health

May 06, 2024


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