Decolonization is not a metaphor
Eve Tuck State University of New York at New Paltz K. Wayne Yang University of California, San Diego
Mois : avril 2021
The C-Word: Tackling the enduring legacy of colonialism in global health By Sudipta Saha, Purvaja Kavattur, Amina Goheer
As part of a student collective, we organized the Decolonizing Global Health Conference at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in February 2019. The collective emerged […]
Pandemicity, COVID-19 and the limits of public health ‘science’
athematical models of infectious disease transmission are merely fables dressed in formal language (that therefore create the illusion of being scientific). For the most part, […]
Ebola and the narrative of mistrust
Transmission of Ebola virus in West Africa and the Democratic Republic ofthe Congo has been traced to local people’s belief in misinformation and low trust […]
Can We Reimagine Global Health In The Post-Pandemic World? Pai, Madhukar
The Covid-19 pandemic will have a profound impact on global health GETTY In a short span of 3 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the […]
Global Health Research Needs More Than A Makeover Pai, Madhukar
HISTORY OF AFRICA, Doctors in an expedition of European explorers, examining the native blood attacked by sleeping sickness, Engraving by Thiriat, 1903, Colored. (Photo by […]
Decolonising COVID-19
When WHO added Disease X to its R&D Blueprint in 2018, the reality of an unknown pathogen that could cause a serious international epidemic was just beyond […]
Opinion: It’s Time To End The Colonial Mindset In Global Health ABRAAR KARAN
On a trip to India, Abraar Karan (second from right) interviews a local woman to talk about the challenges of cataracts. Daniel Carvalho “Any western […]
How (not) to write about global health
There has been much talk recently in BMJ Global Health, in other journals, and on social media platforms, about equity in global health research. But there […]
DecolonizeGlobalHealth: Rewriting the narrative of global health By Renzo Guinto
The history of the field of global health is always traced back to tropical medicine, an earlier discipline started by former Western empires. Generally, the […]
The activists trying to ‘decolonize’ global health By Andrew Green
Health care workers adjust gear before they enter a room where a baby is suspected of dying of Ebola in Beni, Democratic Republic of the […]
Decolonizing both researcher and research and its effectiveness in Indigenous research
Abstract How does one decolonize and reclaim the meanings of research and researcher, particularly in the context of Western research? Indigenous communities have long experienced oppression by […]
Reassessing the Foundations of Smallpox Eradication – By Bhattacharya & Campani
Abstract Abstract : An expansive, worldwide smallpox eradication programme (SEP) was announced by the World Health Assembly in 1958, leading this decision-making body to instruct the […]
The foreign gaze : authorship in academic global health
I was really interested in black readership. For me the parallel is black music, which is as splendid and complicated and wonderful as it is […]