Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The Ig Nobel Prize, a spoof on Nobel Prize, has long performed a valuable service to science.It honours achievements that make people laugh and then think [1].Global Health, after several decades of earnest endeavour, would seem ready for similar recognition.I therefore propose, with all due humility, the establishment of an Ig Nobel Prize for Global Health.There is, of course, no intention to mock Global Health, which is too noble, and the inequalities it seeks to address too consequential.But, like most human enterprises, Global Health has acquired its own vocabulary, rituals, paradoxes and unintended ironies.The proposed Ig Nobel Prize for Global Health would therefore recognise such phenomena for their ability to make us laugh first, think second, and perhaps recognise a little of ourselves in the process.Five examples readily come to mind.
Source: PLOS Global Public Health
Author: Dhananjaya Sharma
Institution: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,496
OpenAlex ID: W7224522678