{"id":15235,"date":"2025-12-08T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/?post_type=mec-events&p=15235"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:10:03","slug":"unpacking-the-polycrisis-transforming-capitalisms-existential-health-threats-with-ronald-labonte","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/events\/unpacking-the-polycrisis-transforming-capitalisms-existential-health-threats-with-ronald-labonte\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking the Polycrisis: Transforming Capitalism\u2019s Existential Health Threats, with Ronald Labont\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Polycrisis has become the new term to reference the multiple intersecting crises that are posing global health threats. This upcoming seminar will unpack some of these crises, beginning with the chaotic disruptions to health and economic order engineered by Donald Trump\u2019s second presidency and his administration\u2019s coterie of enabling loyalists. It will identify some of the key elements of \u2018Donald Trump as Polycrisis\u2019 before locating them in the history of predatory capitalism and its consumptogenic necessity. It concludes with a discussion of the potential for alternative economic paradigms, many embedded under the rubric of \u2018wellbeing economics.\u2019 It will also launch the newest edition of the People\u2019s Health Movement\u2019s flagship triannual publication, Global Health Watch 7: Mobilizing for Health Justice<\/em>, from which some of the elements of the talk are taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In preparation for this seminar, Dr. Labont\u00e9 has recommended reading Global Health Watch 7 Introduction<\/a> and Chapter A1<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PDF Copies and citations of recommended readings for this seminar and all others for the semester can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker Profile<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Ronald Labont\u00e9 is Professor Emeritus and former Distinguished Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity in the School of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Ottawa. For the past 30 years his research has focused on the health equity impacts of diverse globalization processes, on topics ranging from health worker migration; medical tourism; global health diplomacy; trade, political economy and tobacco control; trade and food security; health impact assessments of trade and investment treaties; comprehensive primary health care reforms; the social determinants of health equity; health and foreign policy; and global governance of infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance. He is active with the People\u2019s Health Movement, has consulted extensively with UN agencies, governments and civil society organizations, and is an Editor-in-Chief of the BMC journal, Globalization and Health<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Register below and join us on Wednesday, January 14, at 1:00 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RSVP<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Registration for this event has now closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recording and written recap here.<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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