Chapter Titles

Objectives

Target Outcomes

• Articulate the intent of the book, rationale, intended use and the target audience
• Explain the overall structure of the book and specific objectives of the next five chapters 
• Articulate a reflexivity statement (how my lived experience and identity may influence the work)

• Improved understanding of the intent of the book, overall structure
• Decision to continue to read the book 

• Introduce the concept of ideology and its relevance to international collaboration for health 
• Identify key ideological underpinnings that shape global health research and practice and trace their roots in the history of ‘international health’
• Propose key principles to identify and contest ideological operation to achieve impact on health and health equity

• Improved understanding of the function of ideology and the dominant norms that shape the current practice of global health research

• Illustrate an approach to contest the ideological undercurrents during health program development and evaluation using the realist evaluation as an example
• Using concrete case-studies of realist evaluation, illustrate the value of emphasizing the sociopolitical context for health programs program and power relations when evaluating health programs
• Introduce the realist evaluation and the Context-Mechanism-Outcome analysis as an approach to guide evidence synthesis and program planning and evaluation

• Improved understanding of how to utilize the realist synthesis framework to uncover insights from health program implementation that pertain to contextual factors and how to apply those insights to refine health programs to apply to other contexts

• Propose symptoms of ideological operation grounded in the conceptualization of ideology by philosopher Slavoj Žižek
• Illustrate a systematic approach to identify ideological operation in health research and programs on the basis of these symptoms using case-studies

• Illustrate merits and limitations of a few case studies of international and transnational collaborations among governments, pharmaceutical industry and academia to develop and make available essential medical countermeasures as global public goods
• Highlight new directions and opportunities that can be explored further to enhance the current efforts to achieve impact on health and health security regionally and globally 

• Improved understanding of the current collaborative efforts at the regional and global level to support R&D to develop and make available vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics

• Summarize the key messages from the book
• Propose a few new directions that are not discussed in the book but warrant further exploration 

• Improved understanding of the dominant norms that invisibly shape global health programs and strategies
• Improved understanding of approaches to imagine new models of collaboration and directions that may lie outside the dominant narratives