Abstract Objectives To explore how ethical image-making practices in global health are shaped by issues of agency, power and partnership across the planning, creation and dissemination of imagery and to examine stakeholder perspectives on applying a previously published ethical imagery framework. Setting International qualitative study involving stakeholders engaged in the commissioning, production and dissemination of Global Health […]
From “Visa Apartheid” to structural exposure Visa restrictions can no longer be treated as a peripheral issue; they are a central concern in global health. In 2025 alone, thousands of researchers, public health officials, and clinicians from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) were denied entry to high-income countries for conferences, training, and governance meetings, not […]
Christopher G Kemp and colleagues1 offer seven principles for decolonising implementation science grounded in Indigenous leadership from the USA, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Australia. Writing from southeast Asia, we welcome their discussion on sovereignty, relational accountability, and community-defined evidence. However, we are compelled to raise a concern—treating one colonial configuration as a universal template risks reinstating […]
Photovoice is often conceptualised separately from the broader agenda to decolonise methodologies. To address this conceptual problem, this paper critically examines the academic literature on both photovoice and decolonising methodologies. Drawing from insights from decolonising scholarship, it proposes a conceptual framework consisting of three interconnected principles to decolonise photovoice practice. Principle one involves cultivating a […]
Abstract This paper promotes reflexive consideration of health research practices using a decolonisation lens. We propose both incremental and more radical action in five domains: knowledge production, funding and programmes, dissemination, uptake, and education and training. We suggest four steps towards transformation and share a reflexive tool to operationalise these steps. Tagoe N, Abimbola S, […]
Research in global health must expand its scope beyond English language publishing to ensure inclusivity, writes Abdourahmane Ndong. Each time I engage with global health research I am reminded of how many studies never reach the global spotlight or appear in indexed databases because of the language they are written in or the journal in which […]
ABSTRACT Despite its widespread use for quality assurance within the academic publishing economy, the peer review process is significantly flawed, and to a large extent, “broken.” Emerging literature from researchers who work from marginalized cultural, theoretical, and political perspectives shows that while peer review processes are useful in upholding academic ethics and rigor, they can […]
Power imbalances persist in research, prioritising the experience and knowledge of those with social, political, and economic power while silencing or misrepresenting others. This dynamic—which is intensified in global health due to its focus on vulnerable groups—perpetuates false assumptions about the silenced groups, inevitably ending in harms like inefficient and unjust resource allocation. Increasingly, the […]
Abstract Photovoice researchers must avoid an ahistorical application of the method by critically examining the implementation and dissemination of photovoice projects. Recognizing that photovoice is not automatically empowering and that dismantling power dynamics is an ongoing struggle requiring constant vigilance to ethical, methodological, and representational issues, I propose an anticolonial framework for photovoice, drawing on […]
Abstract Underrepresentation and lack of inclusion of Global South researchers have been key shortcomings in global health publications. This has contributed to epistemic injustice in global health and impacted evidence informed policymaking. PLOS Global Public Health (GPH)was launched in 2021 with the goal of charting a new path towards equity, diversity and inclusion in global […]