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Seye Abimbola
Other affiliations: The George Institute for Global Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Philippine Health Insurance Corporation ...read more
Bio: Seye Abimbola is an academic researcher from University of Sydney. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Global health. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 102 publications receiving 2141 citations. Previous affiliations of Seye Abimbola include The George Institute for Global Health & Obafemi Awolowo University.
Topics: Medicine, Global health, Health care, Health policy, Public health
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University College London1, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation2, International Organization for Migration3, American University of Beirut4, Peking University5, Imperial College London6, St George's, University of London7, University of Giessen8, Cayetano Heredia University9, University of Southampton10, University of Oslo11, Columbia University12, Johns Hopkins University13, Royal Children's Hospital14, University of Melbourne15, Public Health Foundation of India16, University of the Witwatersrand17, University of London18
TL;DR: The most prominent dialogue focuses almost exclusively on migration from LMICs to high-income countries (HICs), where nationalist movements assert so-called cultural sovereignty by delineating an us versus them rhetoric, creating a moral emergency.
449 citations
TL;DR: I was really interested in black readership and the parallel is black music, which has become universal, worldwide, anyone, everyone can play it, and it has evolved, was because it wasn't tampered with, and editorialised, within the community.
Abstract: > 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 because its audience was within; its primary audience. The fact that it has become universal, worldwide, anyone, everyone can play it, and it has evolved, was because it wasn’t tampered with, and editorialised, within the community. So, I wanted the literature that I wrote to be that way. I could just go straight to where the soil was, where the fertility was in this landscape. And also, I wanted to feel free not to have the white gaze in this place that was so precious to me…
> —Toni Morrison (1931–2019)1
> And I have spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books. The people who helped me most arrive at that kind of language were African writers… Those writers who could assume the centrality of their race because they were African. And they didn’t explain anything to white people… “Things Fall Apart” [by Chinua Achebe] was more important to me than anything only because there was a language, there was a posture, there were the parameters. I could step in now, and I didn’t have to be consumed by or concerned by the white gaze.
> —Toni Morrison (1931–2019)2There is a problem of gaze at the heart of academic global health. It is difficult to name. Replace the word ‘white’ in the Toni Morrison quotes above with the word ‘foreign’, and you may see what I mean. Better still, read on. Because without naming this problem, we cannot have holistic discussions on imbalances in the authorship of academic global health publications. Recent bibliometric analyses3–6 (some of which have been published in BMJ Global Health 7–9 …
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TL;DR: To decolonise global health is to remove all forms of supremacy within all spaces of global health practice, within countries, between countries, and at the global level.
152 citations
TL;DR: This paper tries to make sense of this variability in the variety of ways the COVID-19 epidemic is unfolding across the globe by exploring the important role that context plays in these different CO VID-19 epidemics; by comparing COVID's epidemics with other respiratory diseases, including other coronaviruses that circulate continuously; and by highlighting the critical unknowns and uncertainties that remain.
Abstract: It is very exceptional that a new disease becomes a true pandemic. Since its emergence in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, has spread to nearly all countries of the world in only a few months. However, in different countries, the COVID-19 epidemic takes variable shapes and forms in how it affects communities. Until now, the insights gained on COVID-19 have been largely dominated by the COVID-19 epidemics and the lockdowns in China, Europe and the USA. But this variety of global trajectories is little described, analysed or understood. In only a few months, an enormous amount of scientific evidence on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 has been uncovered (knowns). But important knowledge gaps remain (unknowns). Learning from the variety of ways the COVID-19 epidemic is unfolding across the globe can potentially contribute to solving the COVID-19 puzzle. This paper tries to make sense of this variability—by exploring the important role that context plays in these different COVID-19 epidemics; by comparing COVID-19 epidemics with other respiratory diseases, including other coronaviruses that circulate continuously; and by highlighting the critical unknowns and uncertainties that remain. These unknowns and uncertainties require a deeper understanding of the variable trajectories of COVID-19. Unravelling them will be important for discerning potential future scenarios, such as the first wave in virgin territories still untouched by COVID-19 and for future waves elsewhere.
138 citations
TL;DR: Older adults are more likely to develop extra-pulmonary and atypical forms of disease that are often harder to diagnose than conventional sputum smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis, which may prove difficult to manage in regions where health resources are already constrained.
128 citations
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TL;DR: Realist Socinl Tlicory: Tlic I\\loriJlio!gciicti( as discussed by the authors is a clear and well-structured introduction to critical i-disrri, one of the most vibrant theoretical streams in the field of social scicnces.
Abstract: he revised English edition of this book tlie T original Swcdisli cdition. without tlie subtitle. is froni 1997 should be considered :is i111 important contribution to sociology and social science in general to tlie extent tliat it is a clear and wcll-structured introduction to critical i-disrri, one of the most rccent and vigorous theoretical streams in the field of thc social scicnces. if we take into coiisidcration tlic influential work of hlargaret t\\rclier (1995: Realist Socinl Tlicory: Tlic I\\loriJlio!gciicti(’
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TL;DR: An opportunity in a crisis as discussed by the authors, an opportunity in crisis, is an opportunity to be exploited in crisis situations, not exploited in a war zone, but not in a dictatorship.
Abstract: An opportunity in a crisis?
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TL;DR: The findings suggest that continued trends in female educational attainment and access to contraception will hasten declines in fertility and slow population growth, and suggest a shifting age structure in many parts of the world.
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UNICEF1, Johns Hopkins University2, University of Auckland3, University of London4, World Bank5, South African Medical Research Council6, American University of Beirut7, University of the Western Cape8, Peking University9, Centre for Science and Environment10, University of Ibadan11, Aga Khan University12, SITA13, University of Queensland14, Stellenbosch University15, University College London16
TL;DR: The case for placing children, aged 0–18 years, at the centre of the SDGs is presented: at the heart of the concept of sustainability and the authors' shared human endeavour.
471 citations