Decolonizing Global Health Series: Ensuring Equitable Partnerships
Areas of Focus:
- Ethiopia: January 2022
- United States: February 2022
- Brazil: March 2022
- China and India: April 2022
Objectives:
- Increase awareness of the role of colonization on academic global health partnerships in the U.S. and in low-and-middle income countries
- Create a platform for partners to share challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations for more equitable engagement in global health
- Compile best practices for global health partnerships at Emory University
2020-2021 Webinar Recordings
2020-2021 Video Modules
2020-2021 Readings & Discussion Questions
A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples - Chapter 1: "Colonial Training Grounds" and Chapter 2: "From Colonial to International Health" by Randall M. Packard (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery | Chapter 1: "The Doctrine of Discovery and Why It Matters" by Charles, Mark and Soong-Chan Rah (InterVarsity Press)
Christianity’s Role in United States Global Health and Development Policy: To Transfer the Empire of the World (Routledge, 2019) - "The new century begins: 1900-1948" (Chapter 3) and "Not “either/or” but “both/and:” On Seeing International Health and Development as a Tragic Profession… and Why That Should Give Us Hope" (Chapter 8) by Dr. John Blevins
“Gender, Disability and the Postcolonial Nexus,” Wagadu, Journal of Transnational
Women's and Gender Studies. volume 4, Summer 2007 - (Chapter 10) by Dr. Pushpa Parekh
Moving to research partnerships in developing countries
Lavery JV and IJsselmuiden C. The Research Fairness Initiative: Filling a critical gap in global research ethics [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. Gates Open Res 2018, 2:58
Global health 2021: who tells the story? - The Lancet Global Health
The Dilemmas of Practicing Humanitarian Medicine in Gaza by Osama Tanous
Compassion & Global Health: Reflections on a Review of the Literature, 2010, David Addiss, MD, MPH
On the coloniality of global public health, Eugene T. Richardson, Medicine Anthropology Theory