Hi community changemaker!

Mundaly seeks to honor the health and improve the wellbeing of marginalized communities through our Community-Verified platform. So in order to understand why global health is the focus of Mundaly’s mission, global health as a concept needs to first be understood.

Global health, according to Dr. Xinguang Chen, Professor of Global Health at Wuhan University, is:

“A branch of sciences focused primarily on the medical and health issues with global impact or can be effectively addressed through global solutions. The goal of global health science is to understand global medical and health issues and develop global solutions and implications.”

This generally means that global health focuses on health and wellbeing issues with a global impact, such as pandemic preparedness and climate change. These are issues within health and wellbeing that have implications for millions of people.

Why Global Health Means the Health of Everyone:

What differentiates global health and public health is that their ideas and interventions have global impact, whereas public health targets the health of a community holistically.

Global health is the big picture view of public health. Global health science has three functions, according to Dr. Chen. Mundaly seeks to use these functions as the guiding principles of why our platform should be used.

1. The first function is to generate new knowledge and theories about global health issues, what influences those issues and develop global solutions to those problems.

2. The second function is to distribute the knowledge through education, training, publication and other forms of knowledge sharing. This includes forms of education such as what you’re doing right now by reading this newsletter!

3. The last function is to apply the global health knowledge, theories, and intervention strategies in practice to solve global health problems. This is where our platform database and survey technology is relevant.

Through using Mundaly’s Community-Verified platform, customers gain access to communities directly and can use that knowledge to further improve their organization and how they interact with communities where they have a presence. This function of using the knowledge gained can be applied to all organizations, whether or not they have a global health focus but the use of knowledge to solve health problems globally and increase community well-being is the key.

An important aspect of global health is to be informed and knowledgeable.

Listed below are three recent news articles that have global health implications: 

1. Copper Mining Using AI in Zambia: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/climate/kobold-zambia-copper-ai-mining.html 

2. Chevron ruling in United States Guts Regulatory Agencies: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-chevron-regulations-environment-biden-536cb6a7e4bc744bbaa3f058637bbf6c 

3. World Hunger in 2024 Report: https://www.who.int/news/item/24-07-2024-hunger-numbers-stubbornly-high-for-three-consecutive-years-as-global-crises-deepen--un-report 

Why Mundaly is focused on global health and well-being:

We have chosen to focus on global health and wellbeing because when communities are physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy it positively impacts all aspects of the community. The workforce, families, and entrepreneurship cannot thrive if people are not healthy. Promoting health as a number one priority for Mundaly will make sure that communities and the organizations they partner with can achieve success and that the communities themselves have a say in their future.  

Next week we dive more into the topic of global health in preparation for Mundaly’s first Global Health Dignity summit, August 18th at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. Register here!