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Health and medicine have been increasingly globalized in many different ways (Adams et al. 2019; Noack 2019). Diseases, most notably COVID-19, can and do proliferate globally. There is also the global spread of medical knowledge and expertise as well as technologies useful in diagnosing and treating various diseases. Although cultural differences to health and medicine persist and geopolitics between North and South shape such flows, medical knowledge is increasingly disseminated rapidly around the world. Global organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) seek to address these issues, just as they did with fighting the coronavirus. The WHO was important in tracking its global spread, disseminating medical knowledge about the disease, and coordinating the global response.