• Stephen Taylor.
• School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. Electronic address: stephen.taylor@qmul.ac.uk.
• Health Place. 2018 Nov 1; 54: 29-36.

AbstractAs the world comes closer to the eradication of polio, the question of preparing for life after this debilitating disease becomes increasingly pertinent. This paper focuses on on-going institutional attempts to conceptualise, plan, and deliver a world after polio. Drawing upon interviews with global health officials and ethnographic fieldwork with eradication initiatives in Nigeria and Pakistan, I explore how international donors are transitioning towards life after the disease and the curtailment of the substantial resources it has successfully mobilised. Focusing specifically on the wind-down of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, I critically examine key risks emerging from polio transition and highlight a series of spatial and political assumptions about the emergent post-polio contours of global health that have largely been obscured by attempts to render transition planning as little more than a technical exercise.Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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