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Volume 15, No. 1Interconnectedness and Reciprocity

Published April 28, 2026

Fishing for Health: Upstream and Downstream Cover design by Catherine Harder  This illustration portrays a stratified system where knowledge, care, and profit circulate through an interconnected web of actors, yet do not flow equally. Through disrupted reciprocity, the piece reveals how structural inequalities determine who benefits upstream and who is left downstream, unseen and discarded.

Issue description

The McGill Journal of Global Health is pleased to present its 15th volume, Interconnectedness and Reciprocity. This edition brings together a diverse set of contributions that interrogate how global health challenges are embedded within and are shaped by broader social, political, and economic systems.

Spanning settings from Bangladesh to the Philippines, and ranging from local health systems to global governance, the articles in this volume examine the structures underpinning health inequities. Themes include mental health, health system implementation, antimicrobial resistance in conflict settings, and the enduring impacts of colonial and patriarchal logics in medicine.

In their entirety, these contributions reflect a central premise: health systems are not isolated, and neither are the challenges they confront. Addressing them requires relational thinking, critical reflection, and readiness to take on collective responsibility.

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