Naima Nasir discusses the importance of understanding and considering context in the determination of global health policies and health systems. Naima Nasir is a health researcher and teacher on the MSc in IHTM with a wealth of experience working in global health in Africa and Asia. In this podcast Naima talks about the need to develop comprehensive and context specific global health solutions. We are always working within complex health systems and this means recognising that many of the global health challenges we are trying to solve are interconnected and they are influenced by different factors, social, economic, political and environmental.