Raphael Ardani

Global health can only be promoted, maintained and pioneered through holistic and interdisciplinary cooperation, aimed at addressing global health challenges at their roots and within the wider socioeconomic, historical and cultural contexts in which they lie. I am proud that Students' for Global Health is a charity that seeks to approach global health challenges in this way; that seeks to view the 'bigger picture' when it comes to understanding the complexity of global health challenges, and which doesn't take reductionist approaches to finding solutions to such challenges. 

As students, we are the global health professionals of the future, and therefore it's crucial that we make our voices heard now. As president I will ensure that the voices of students from across the spectrum of disciplines are heard. I myself am an anthropology student and I am passionate about anthropology's contribution to global health and the way it is able to contextualise biomedicine within wider sociocultural understandings of health and illness. 

I will seek to continue the great work that the SfGH team has carried out within UCL this year, and will ensure that each subcommittee has the resources to conduct engaging and varied events related to specific aspects of global health. I will continue our successful mentorship programme as well as lobby to increase the number of global health conferences held at UCL, so our students and the wider community have greater access to knowledge.