Perspective Chapter: Teaching Pharmacology through a Global Health Lens - A Resource for Educators

In times of rapid digital transformation, it is crucial to remember that creating the future of medical education requires us to also look to the past. Understanding historical and structural inequities is key to ensuring that advances in medical education do not inadvertently reinforce existing disparities in healthcare. Pharmacological treatment remains an important pillar of medicine and plays a central role within the medical curriculum. As the historical development and contemporary application of pharmacology have been shaped by complex global influences, recognizing these influences is important. It allows students, educators and practitioners to better understand why certain knowlegde systems became dominant while others were margininalized.