Summary For the sake of one’s children, in order to minimize the bill that they must pay, one must be careful not to take refuge in any delusion—and the value placed on the color of the skin is always and everywhere and forever a delusion. James Baldwin [1963]. The Fire Next Time. Global health research […]
Find out about the Ethical Toolkit for Sharing Power with Communities in Priority-Setting for Health Research Projects in this short video introducing its purpose and content. The Ethical Toolkit is freely available at: https://www.researchforhealthjustice.com/
Abstract Unfair knowledge practices easily beset our efforts to achieve health equity within and between countries. Enacted by people from a distance and from a position of power (‘the centre’) on behalf of and alongside people with less power (‘the periphery’), these unfair practices have generated a complex literature of complaints across various axes of […]
Hear from Seye Abimbola as he discusses undoing unfair knowledge practices in global health. Dr. Seye Abimbola is a health systems researcher from Nigeria. He is currently based at the University of Sydney in Australia, where he is an associate professor and principal research fellow. His teaching and research focus on knowledge practices in global […]
Abstract Education systems and pedagogical practices in global public health are facing substantive calls for change during the current and ongoing ‘decolonising global health’ movement. Incorporating antioppressive principles into learning communities is one promising approach to decolonising global health education. We sought to transform a four-credit graduate-level global health course at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg […]
In 2012, the Nigerian-American writer and artist Teju Cole called out the culture of white saviourism in the USA and introduced the concept of the White Saviour Industrial Complex (WSIC). The make-up of global health education perpetuates and feeds into the WSIC, with universities in high-income countries (HICs) accounting for a major share of global […]
In this issue of the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, Entwistle and colleagues address an urgent concern in our health care systems, namely that patients are sometimes treated with disrespect and that this disrespect is not sufficiently considered or addressed. They outline a number of important reasons for this deficit, including that respect is […]
The commitment by the global health community to promote equity in research, publishing and practice is a welcome addition to the discourse on decolonising global health. Bibliometric analysis of authorship and prime authorship positioning (first and last) has demonstrated that researchers from low-income and middle-income countries or the Global South are under-represented in academic publishing highlighting the need for […]
The field of global health aims to leverage global partnerships to investigate issues transcending local boundaries. It acknowledges the importance of forming collaborative teams with diverse knowledge and experience to combat health disparities. However, in practice, global health is dominated by high-income countries (HICs). Most global health centers, global health conferences, and corresponding authors in global health […]
Two years ago, PLOS Global Public Health began publishing articles with a bold vision: The mission of PLOS Global Public Health is to address deeply entrenched inequities in global health and make impactful research visible and accessible to health professionals, policymakers, and local communities. We are committed to amplifying the voices of underrepresented and historically excluded communities and are […]