Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in the field of medicine and healthcare. However, there are no articles specifically examining ethical and moral dimensions of AI use for evidence synthesis. This article attempts to fills this gap. In doing so, I deploy in written form, what in Bengali philosophy and culture, is the Adda (আড্ডা) […]
By Dr Keerty Nakray “A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society.” ― B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste On April 14, 2024, India commemorated the birth of B.R. Ambedkar, a Dalit jurist who was pivotal in drafting the […]
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 […]
Significance Empirical evidence suggests that non-White scientists experience various forms of inequality, creating barriers to their entry and participation in academic research. We contribute to this literature by examining disparities in i) editorial board representation, ii) time spent under review, and iii) citation rates. Using a dataset of 1,000,000 papers from six publishers over the […]
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 […]