Abstract Contemporary research practices link to colonial and imperialist knowledge creation and production and may promote harmful perspectives on marginalized and oppressed groups. We present a framework for a decolonial approach to research in global health and health promotion applicable across research settings. This framework is aimed at anticipating and alleviating potentially harmful practices inherent […]
Introduction Race and gender were intimately intertwined aspects of the colonial project, used as key categories of hierarchisation within both colonial and modern societies. As such, true decolonisation is only possible when both are addressed equally; failure to address the colonial root causes of gender-based inequalities will allow for the perpetuation of racialised notions of […]
There are growing calls to decolonise global health. This process is only just beginning. But what would success look like? Will global health survive its decolonisation? This is a question that fills us with imagination. It is a question that makes us reflect on what Martin Luther King Jr saw when he said in 1968, […]
Introduction Global South researchers struggle to publish in Global North journals, including journals dedicated to research on health professions education (HPE). As a consequence, Western perspectives and values dominate the international academic landscape of HPE. This study sought to understand Global South researchers’ motivations and experiences of publishing in Global North journals. Methods This study used a […]
Summary The historical and contemporary alignment of medical and health journals with colonial practices needs elucidation. Colonialism, which sought to exploit colonised people and places, was justified by the prejudice that colonised people’s ways of knowing and being are inferior to those of the colonisers. Institutions for knowledge production and dissemination, including academic journals, were […]
Climate change is the greatest health threat facing humanity. The nature and scale of the interconnected impacts of climate change on health as well as the effectiveness of interventions to adapt to and mitigate climate change are currently the focus of research. Questions about which research should be given priority are critical, and ethical considerations […]
It is widely perceived how research institutes have been adopting the discourse of champions of diversity, inclusion, and equity (DEI) in recent years. Despite progress in diversity and inclusion in the academic environment, we highlight here that nothing or, at very best, little work has been done to overcome the scientific labor division in academic […]
On 19 November 2024, at the Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, a critical session was held to address the complex intersections of social, environmental and ecological justice within Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR). With experts from diverse fields, the discussion unpacked key concepts, shared dilemmas and explored actionable pathways to integrate justice in […]
A summary of the Thematic Working Group webinar by Kate Hawkins of Pamoja Communications, ReBUILD for Resilience and Urban SHADE. Our session moderators, Sassy Molyneux and Karen Ceballos, opened the webinar by explaining that the time is right for this conversation as there are new ethical issues and concerns around equity and responsibility and tensions […]
By Davide Bilardi and Nadia Tagoe The 2024 Oxford Global Health and Bioethics International Conference organisers dedicated a “lightning session” on ‘Towards a more Equitable Global Health’. Presenting at this session gave us a chance to reflect on some of our work linked to decolonisation and global health research. Some light indeed emerged for us […]