How the ‘Battle in Seattle’ led to a global health epicenter

KNKX Public Radio | By Tom Paulson

Published October 3, 2011 at 12:25 PM PDT

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Global health geographer Matt Sparke

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So what do the WTO riots and globalization have to do with global health? 'Lots,' says geographer Matt Sparke.

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How did Seattle get to be a world epicenter for global health?

Most people would say that it’s due to the simple fact that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is here ... but Matt Sparke would say it’s more complicated than that.

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The host of the Humanosphere community is Tom Paulson, who spent 22 years reporting on science and medicine at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Tom was one of the first daily news reporters to cover the topic of “global health” (a much-debated label which he discusses the merits of on the Humanosphere website).

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