Lindsay McLaren is Professor of Population and Public Health at the University of Calgary, Canada; Research Associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (National Office); and Co-Editor of the Journal of Critical Public Health.Judith Green is Professor of Sociology in the Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health and the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, UK, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Critical Public Health.Ronald Labonté is Professor Emeritus in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Canada; a member of the global People's Health Movement's Steering Council; and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Globalization and Health.

• Introduction. 1.Political economy of knowledge production. 2.Making evidence: complexity, trials and epistemic justice. 3.Public health, medicalization, and biomedicalization. 4.Keeping the pressure on: critical public health and the social determinants of health inequities. 5.Beyond behaviour: social practices and ‘more than human’ health. 6.Beyond the state: the health perils of neoliberal globalization. 7.Global health governance, the state, and healthy social movement activism. 8.Conclusion: we are all now (critical) political economists.