Decolonizing Global Health Series: Ensuring Equitable Partnerships
Emory Global Health Institute's 2022 Decolonizing Global Health series will take a close examination of Emory University’s regionally-based global health partnerships. We hope the output of this introspective approach, though Emory-focused, will create tangible actions to decolonize and reconstruct our own practices at Emory while also offering insight and lessons learned applicable and replicable at other academic institutions working in global health.
Watch our first event of 2022, Ensuring Equitable Partnerships In Ethiopia
Areas of Focus:
- Ethiopia: January 2022
- United States Indiginous population: February 2022
- Brazil: March 2022
- 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
2022 - Reading List
Background on History of Colonialism in Global Health
- On the coloniality of global public health (Richardson, 2019)
- On Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine (Downs, 2021)
- “Introduction” in Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health (Richardson, Farmer and Recorded Books, 2020)
- “Chapter 3: Colonial Medicine and Its Legacies,” in Reimagining Global Health (Farmer et al., 2013)
Anti-Racism and Decolonization in Global Health - General
- Decolonization is not a metaphor (Tuck and Wayne, 2012)
- Why and for whom are we decolonising global health? (Mogaka, Stewart and Bukusi, 2021)
- Anti-racism and anti-colonialism praxis in global health—reflection and action for practitioners in US academic medical centers (Daffé, Guillaume and Ivers, 2021)
- The words we choose matter: recognising the importance of language in decolonising global health (Hommes et al., 2021)
- Decolonising COVID-19 (Lancet, 2020)
- Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance (Villanueva, 2021)
- New York Times interview with Villanueva (Bornstein, 2018)
Anti-Racism and Decolonization in Global Health - Funding/Money/Aid
- The Gates Foundation Avoids a Reckoning on Race and Power (Schwab, 2021)
- Why We Lie About Aid: Development and the Messy Politics of Change (Yanguas, 2018)
- Philanthrocapitalism, past and present: The Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates Foundation, and the setting(s) of the international/global health agenda (Birn, 2014)
- Reform of research funding processes could pave the way for progress in global health (Ashuntantang et al., 2021)
Anti-Racism and Decolonization in Global Health - Research
- Says who? Northern ventriloquism, or epistemic disobedience in global health scholarship (Naidu, 2021)
- The foreign gaze: authorship in academic global health (Abimbola, 2019)
- Decolonizing both researcher and research and its effectiveness in Indigenous research (Datta, 2018)
Anti-Racism and Decolonization in Global Health - Data/Precision Science
- “Introduction” in Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography) (Adams, 2016)
- The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health (Davis, 2020)
References
Abimbola, S. (2019) ‘The foreign gaze: Authorship in academic global health’, BMJ Global Health, 4(5), pp. 1–5. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-002068.
Adams, V. (2016) Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography). Duke University Press.
Ashuntantang, G. et al. (2021) ‘Reform of research funding processes could pave the way for progress in global health’, The Lancet Global Health. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, 9(8), pp. e1053–e1054. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00207-2.
Billaud, J. (2021) ‘Politics of Data’, Journal of the Association for Political and Legal Anthroplogy. Available at: https://polarjournal.org/2021/09/03/politics-of-data/ (Accessed: 3 December 2021).
Birn, A.-E. (2014) ‘Philanthrocapitalism, past and present: The Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates Foundation, and the setting(s) of the international/global health agenda’, Hypothesis, 12(1), pp. 1–27. doi: 10.5779/hypothesis.v12i1.229.
Bornstein, D. (2018) ‘Opinion | A Call to Modernize American Philanthropy - The New York Times’, New York Times. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/opinion/philanthropy-minorities-charities.html (Accessed: 2 December 2021).
Braun, L. (2014) ‘Introduction: Measuring Vital Capacity’ in Breathing Race into the Machine : The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics. University of MInnesota Press.
Daffé, Z. N., Guillaume, Y. and Ivers, L. C. (2021) ‘Anti-racism and anti-colonialism praxis in global health—reflection and action for practitioners in US academic medical centers’, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 105(3), pp. 557–560. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-0187.
Datta, R. (2018) ‘Decolonizing both researcher and research and its effectiveness in Indigenous research’, Research Ethics, 14(2), pp. 1–24. doi: 10.1177/1747016117733296.
Davis, S. (2020) The uncounted: politics of data in global health, International Affairs. Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1093/IA/IIAB067.
Downs, J. (2021) Maladies of empire : how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine. Harvard University Press. Available at: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674971721 (Accessed: 2 December 2021).
Edom, G. (2018) Book Review – Why We Lie About Aid by Pablo Yanguas | | Africa at LSE, London School of Economics. Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2018/05/18/book-review-why-we-lie-about-aid-by-pablo-yanguas/ (Accessed: 2 December 2021).
Farmer, P. et al. (2013) Reimagining Global Health.
Hommes, F. et al. (2021) ‘The words we choose matter: recognising the importance of language in decolonising global health’, Lancet, 9. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00197-2.
Kishore, R. (2021) ‘How imperialism, slavery, and war shaped epidemiology’, The Lancet. Elsevier Ltd, 398(10309), pp. 1396–1397. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(21)02216-9.
Lancet (2020) ‘Decolonising COVID-19’, The Lancet Global Health, 8, p. e612. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30123-6.
Mogaka, O. F., Stewart, J. and Bukusi, E. (2021) ‘Why and for whom are we decolonising global health?’, The Lancet Global Health, 9(10), pp. e1359–e1360. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00317-X.
Naidu, T. (2021) ‘Says who? Northern ventriloquism, or epistemic disobedience in global health scholarship’, The Lancet Global Health. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, 9(9), pp. e1332–e1335. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00198-4.
Redfield, P. (2017) ‘Metrics: What Counts in Global Health. Vincanne Adams, ed., Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, 258 pp.’, Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Wiley, 31(3). doi: 10.1111/MAQ.12363.
Richardson, E. T. (2019) ‘On the coloniality of global public heath’, Medicine Anthropology Theory, 6(4), pp. 101–118. doi: 10.17157/mat.6.4.761.
Richardson, E. T., Farmer, P. and Recorded Books, I. (2020) Epidemic illusions : on the coloniality of global public health. MIT Press. Available at: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/epidemic-illusions (Accessed: 2 December 2021).
Schwab, T. (2021) ‘The Gates Foundation Avoids a Reckoning on Race and Power’, The Nation, 6 October. Available at: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gates-foundation-colonialism/ (Accessed: 2 December 2021).
Vernon, G. (2020) ‘Books: Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction: Is Global Health a Human Right?’, The British Journal of General Practice. Royal College of General Practitioners, 70(690), p. 34. doi: 10.3399/BJGP20X707597.
Villanueva, E. (2021) Decolonizing wealth: indigenous wisdom to heal divides and restore balance. 2nd edn. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Available at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/588996/decolonizing-wealth-second-edition-by-edgar-villanueva/ (Accessed: 2 December 2021).
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