The term „Global Health“ has, in recent times, increasingly served to denote the global political dimension of medical questions. The lecture series taken from the CAS research focus of the same name (directors: Peter Falkai, Katja Radon, Matthias Siebeck) analyzes more precisely this heterogeneous field of research on the basis of its historical structures and socio-political concepts. | Lesley Doyal is professor emeritus for Health and Social Care at the University of Bristol.