The Centre for Social Science and Global Health (SSGH) was founded in 2009 (originally as the Centre for Global Health and Inequality). It builds on a long tradition of multidisciplinary social science research on health and illness in the faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. The Centre includes anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists and behavioural scientists who have a strong track record in studying the sociocultural, political and historical factors that influence the health and illness of individuals as well as the functioning of health systems.