David Mccoy

Datos Biográficos

ID123871
NOMBREDavid Mccoy
NOMBRESDavid
APELLIDOMccoy
FIRMAMCCOY D
AFILIACIONESUnited Nations University-International Institute for Global Health
ORCID0000-0001-7305-8594
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS37
TOTAL DE CITAS57
TOTAL COMO AUTOR37
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2001
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • Shifting power in global health research

    Open AccessRamya Kumar, David MccoyARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    Colonial legacies continue to shape who decides, leads, and benefits from global health research. Funders play a pivotal role in this landscape, determining which settings, problems, and approaches are prioritized in research. This paper introduces a checklist for research funders aimed at tackling some of the structural and political dimensions of inequity in global health research. Grounded in a framework that understands 'decolonising global h…

  • Understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and its control measures on women and children

    Open AccessTinotenda Taruvinga, Rudo MS Chingono et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) posed significant health policy challenges, particularly for low-income countries, where policymakers faced both direct threats from the virus and social and economic harm owing to lockdown measures. We present a holistic contextualized case study of the direct and indirect impacts on women and children, highlighting disparities across socioeconomic, age, and gender groups. We utilized multiple data sources…

  • Private finance and the threat to global health

    Open AccessBenjamin M Hunter, David Mccoy et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    The expansion of private finance in global health is pronounced

  • Decolonising global health research

    Open AccessRamya Kumar, Rajat Khosla et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Recent debates on decolonizing global health have spurred interest in addressing the power asymmetries and knowledge hierarchies that sustain colonial ideas and relationships in global health research. This paper applies three intersecting dimensions of colonialism (colonialism within global health; colonisation of global health; and colonialism through global health) to develop a broader and more structural understanding of the policies and acti…

  • Impact of Covid-19 lockdown measures on mother and child health – the case of Ghana

    Open AccessEric Koka, Emmanuel Narh et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Government responded to COVID-19 using different strategies however the policy response resulted in both intended and unintended consequences especially for women and children in Ghana. It is recommended that national policy directions should ensure the continuous provision of child and maternal healthcare services which are essential health services during lockdowns

  • The Unequal Economic and Livelihood Impacts of Covid-19 Lockdowns

    Open AccessDavid Musoke, Kevin Deane et al.ARTICLEINQUIRY The Journal of Health…2024

    Lockdowns were a key policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While they were viewed as a necessary intervention, concerns were raised about their potential for harmful economic and livelihood impacts. However, few studies have addressed the unequal economic and livelihood impacts of lockdowns. Our article reports findings from a qualitative study conducted in Uganda on economic and livelihood impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns in urban and rural set…

  • Marketing of commercial milk formula

    Open AccessNigel Rollins, Ellen Piwoz et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2023

    Despite proven benefits, less than half of infants and young children globally are breastfed in accordance with the recommendations of WHO. In comparison, commercial milk formula (CMF) sales have increased to about US$55 billion annually, with more infants and young children receiving formula products than ever. This Series paper describes the CMF marketing playbook and its influence on families, health professionals, science, and policy processe…

  • Breastfeeding

    Open AccessRafael Pérez-Escamilla, Cecilia Tomori et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2023

    In this Series paper, we examine how mother and baby attributes at the individual level interact with breastfeeding determinants at other levels, how these interactions drive breastfeeding outcomes, and what policies and interventions are necessary to achieve optimal breastfeeding. About one in three neonates in low-income and middle-income countries receive prelacteal feeds, and only one in two neonates are put to the breast within the first hou…

  • Global health security and the health-security nexus

    Open AccessDavid Mccoy, Stephen Roberts et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    The past four decades have seen a steady rise of references to ‘security’ by health academics, policy-makers and practitioners, particularly in relation to threats posed by infectious disease pandemics. Yet, despite an increasingly dominant health security discourse, the many different ways in which health and security issues and actors intersect have remained largely unassessed and unpacked in current critical global health scholarship. This pap…

  • Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence

    Open AccessFrederik Federspiel, Elisa Gagnon et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    While artificial intelligence (AI) offers promising solutions in healthcare, it also poses a number of threats to human health and well-being via social, political, economic and security-related determinants of health. We describe three such main ways misused narrow AI serves as a threat to human health: through increasing opportunities for control and manipulation of people; enhancing and dehumanising lethal weapon capacity and by rendering huma…

  • The effects of Covid-19 lockdown measures on health and healthcare services in Uganda

    Open AccessDavid Musoke, Sarah Nalinya et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Many countries across the world instituted lockdowns as a measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19. However, these lockdowns had consequences on health systems. This study explored effects of the COVID-19 lockdown measures on health and healthcare services in Uganda. The qualitative study employed focus group discussions (FGDs), household interviews, and key informant interviews (KIIs) in both an urban (Kampala district) and rural (Wakiso distri…

  • The impacts of Covid-19 and its policy response on access and utilization of maternal and child health services in Tanzania

    Open AccessElizabeth H Shayo, Nahya Khamis Nassor et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The SARS-Cov-2 virus (COVID-19) has had a global social and economic impact. Despite the growing evidence, its effects on access and delivery of maternal and child health services in low-income countries are still unclear. This cross-sectional case study was conducted in Mjini Magharibi, Chake Chake, and Ilala districts in Tanzania to help fill this gap. The study combined qualitative and quantitative data collection methods, providing an account…

  • Dissent and the right to protest in context of global health

    Open AccessRajat Khosla, David MccoyARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

  • Deliberative Stakeholder Engagement in Person-centered Health Research

    Gordon R Mitchell, Grant A Mitchell et al.ARTICLESocial Epistemology2022

    Robust stakeholder engagement in health research requires broad communicative integration, not only of patients but also other stakeholders such as health system leaders, clinicians, and researchers. As patients’ personal narratives tend to focus on their own health care experiences, it can be challenging to incorporate these perspectives at the health system level, where discussions often address technical issues such as strategies for aggregati…

  • Maximising the wealth of few at the expense of the health of many

    Open AccessBenjamin Wood, Phillip Baker et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2021

    BACKGROUND: Many of the harms created by the global soft drink industry that directly influence human and planetary health are well documented. However, some of the ways in which the industry indirectly affects population health, via various socio-economic pathways, have received less attention. This paper aimed to analyse the extent to which market power and corporate wealth and income distribution in the global soft drink market negatively impa…

  • Globalization, first-foods systems transformations and corporate power

    Open AccessPhillip Baker, K Russ et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2021

    BACKGROUND: The global milk formula market has 'boomed' in recent decades, raising serious concerns for breastfeeding, and child and maternal health. Despite these developments, few studies have investigated the global expansion of the baby food industry, nor the market and political practices corporations have used to grow and sustain their markets. In this paper, our aim is to understand the strategies used by the baby food industry to shape 'f…

  • Breastfeeding, first-food systems and corporate power

    Open AccessPhillip Baker, Paul Zambrano et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2021

    BACKGROUND: The aggressive marketing of breastmilk substitutes (BMS) reduces breastfeeding, and harms child and maternal health globally. Yet forty years after the World Health Assembly adopted the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (The Code), many countries are still to fully implement its provisions into national law. Furthermore, despite The Code, commercial milk formula (CMF) markets have markedly expanded. In this pa…

  • The double burden of maldistribution

    Open AccessBenjamin Wood, David Mccoy et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2021

    The health and ecological harms created and spread by firms active in many unhealthy commodity industries (UCIs) have received considerable attention from the public health community. However, less focus has been paid to analysing the distribution of wealth and income – important social and economic determinants of health – by these industries. This study aimed to examine long-term trends in wealth and income distribution by publicly listed corpo…

  • Lockdown measures in response to Covid-19 in nine sub-Saharan African countries

    Open AccessNajmul Haider, Abdinasir Yusuf Osman et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Lockdown measures have been introduced worldwide to contain the transmission of COVID-19. However, the term ‘lockdown’ is not well-defined. Indeed, WHO’s reference to ‘so-called lockdown measures’ indicates the absence of a clear and universally accepted definition of the term ‘lockdown’. We propose a definition of ‘lockdown’ based on a two-by-two matrix that categorises different communicable disease measures based on whether they are compulsory…

  • First‐food systems transformations and the ultra‐processing of infant and young child diets

    Open AccessPhillip Baker, Thiago Melo Santos et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2020

    The inappropriate marketing and aggressive promotion of breastmilk substitutes (BMS) undermines breastfeeding and harms child and maternal health in all country contexts. Although a global milk formula 'sales boom' is reportedly underway, few studies have investigated its dynamics and determinants. This study takes two steps. First, it describes trends and patterns in global formula sales volumes (apparent consumption), by country income and regi…

  • Victor W. Sidel (7 July 1931–30 January 2018)

    David MccoyARTICLEMedicine Conflict & Survival2018

  • Community participation in general health initiatives in high and upper-middle income countries

    Open AccessFiona Leh Hoon Chuah, Aastha Srivastava et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2018

  • Strengthening health systems in low-income countries by enhancing organizational capacities and improving institutions

    Open AccessRobert Swanson, Robert Chad Swanson et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2015

    BACKGROUND: This paper argues that the global health agenda tends to privilege short-term global interests at the expense of long-term capacity building within national and community health systems. The Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) movement needs to focus on developing the capacity of local organizations and the institutions that influence how such organizations interact with local and international stakeholders. DISCUSSION: While instituti…

  • The Lancet, Gaza and academic publishing

    Neil Arya, Marion Birch et al.ARTICLEMedicine Conflict & Survival2015

    Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future

  • Implementing Global Fund programs

    Open AccessFrancis Wafula, Charles Marwa et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2014

    BACKGROUND: Principal Recipients (PRs) receive money from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) to manage and implement programs. However, little research has gone into understanding their opinions and experiences. This survey set out to describe these, thereby providing a baseline against which changes in PR opinions and experiences can be assessed as the recently introduced new funding model is rolled out. METHOD…