Decolonising global health: where are the Southern voices?

Oti, Samuel; Ncayiyana, Jabulani

doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006576

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“…However, decolonisation efforts often target the relationship between foreign global health practitioner and indigenous clinician trained in western medicine. 14 27 28 This focus on decolonising intercountry relationships may be problematic. First, indigenous clinicians may not be able to understand or represent the perspectives and culture of all host-country stakeholders.…”

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“…However, decolonisation efforts often target the relationship between foreign global health practitioner and indigenous clinician trained in western medicine. 14 27 28 …”

Section: Barriers To Decolonising Partnershipsmentioning

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“…13 Others ask global health practitioners to reject 'saviorism' by refusing to participate in partnerships that do not give equal opportunity and reward to partners from LMICs. 14 Although these strategies contribute to a growing consensus on how to approach…”

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Barriers to decolonising educational partnerships in global health

Kulesa

Brantuo

2021

BMJ Glob Health

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Global health partnerships between high-income countries and low/middle-income countries can mirror colonial relationships. The growing call to advance global health equity therefore involves decolonising global health partnerships and outreach. Through decolonisation, local and international global health partners recognise non-western forms of knowledge and authority, acknowledge discrimination and disrupt colonial structures and legacies that influence access to healthcare.Despite these well-described aims, the ideal implementation process for decolonising global health remains ill-defined. This ambiguity exists, in part, because partners face barriers to adopting a decolonised perspective. Such barriers include overemphasis on intercountry relationships, implicit hierarchies perpetuated by educational interventions and ethical dilemmas in global health work.In this article, we explore the historical entanglement of education, health and colonialism. We then use this history as context to identify barriers that arise when decolonising contemporary educational global health partnerships. Finally, we offer global health partners strategies to address these challenges.

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“…However, decolonisation efforts often target the relationship between foreign global health practitioner and indigenous clinician trained in western medicine. 14 27 28 …”

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Barriers to decolonising educational partnerships in global health

Kulesa

Brantuo

2021

BMJ Glob Health

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“…Authors affiliated to the Global Health Decolonisation Movement in Africa emphasise the urgency of the need for change, and argue for reforms that are discrete, tangible and measurable. 13 Others make the case for deeper, more systemic, and perhaps more ambiguous approaches to reform-including, in the case of one article, the 'complete overhaul' of global health, including 'removal of the coloniser' from the discipline. 14 Despite these differences, a number of analytical tendencies are common across the literature, three of which provide our focus in this commentary.…”

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Powerful ideas? Decolonisation and the future of global health

Hellowell

Schwerdtle

2022

BMJ Glob Health

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“…8 Over the past 18 months, 'decolonising global health' has gained pace as a collection of activist movements that seek to transition from the theoretical to the practical. While differing in approach [9][10][11] they are unified by the impetus to actively deconstruct ingrained systems of power and privilege that continue to prioritise the perspectives of those from former colonial powers, persistently marginalising those with lived experience and hampering the attainment of health equity.…”

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confidence: 99%