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Will global health survive its decolonisation

Seye Abimbola, +1 more
- 21 Nov 2020 - 
- Vol. 396, Iss: 10263, pp 1627-1628
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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.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2020-11-21. It has received 152 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Global health & Health equity.

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Decolonising global health in 2021: a roadmap to move from rhetoric to reform.

TL;DR: Decolonising global health was a hot topic in 2020 as mentioned in this paper, with more than 50 academic articles between January and December 2020, appeared as a new area covered in numerous conferences, and featured in public statements by leaders of global health organizations.
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Epistemic injustice in academic global health

TL;DR: The authors argue that common practices in academic global health (e.g., authorship practices, research partnerships, academic writing, editorial practices, sensemaking practices, and the choice of audience or research framing, questions, and methods) are peppered with epistemic wrongs that lead to or exacerbate epistemic injustice.
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Decolonizing global health: what should be the target of this movement and where does it lead us?

TL;DR: The main points of discussion from the Symposium organized by the editorial board of Global Health Research and Policy, convened in July 2021 in Wuhan, China, were summarized in this paper .
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How we classify countries and people—and why it matters

TL;DR: Pai et al. as discussed by the authors pointed out that the implicit connotations of global health and global development today have their origins in racism and colonialism, which has created a false hierarchy among nations, ascribed a higher value to some lives, and allowed some groups to extract, exploit and subjugate others.
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The foreign gaze: authorship in academic global health

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.
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Decolonising global health: if not now, when?

TL;DR: While the manifestation of inequity in each country or region is bound up in the local-to-global interface of historical, economical, social and political forces, COVID-19 disproportionately affects the world’s marginalised.
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