The future of global health is inclusive and anti-racist

2021 ◽  
pp. 004947552110618
Author(s):  
Manon Pigeolet ◽  
Batool Al-wahdani ◽  
Omnia El Omrani ◽  
Osahon Enabulele ◽  
Rispah Walumbe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
International Health ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Native Populations ◽  
Shared Humanity

In global health, a discipline with a racist and colonial history, white supremacy, white privilege and racism are still present today. 1 Although many believe we are witnessing a resurgence of racism in global health, because of a recent rise of extreme right comments and racism in the community and online 2 , 3 . In reality racism has always been an inherent aspect of global health and its predecessors: tropical health and international health by prioritizing the health issues of the colonizers over those of the native populations. 4 As such, we are rather bearing witness to long standing issues that have been persistently overlooked. There is a need for a paradigm shift to enable true authentic leadership that promotes the values of our shared humanity.

Introducing medical students to global health issues: a Bachelor of Science degree in international health

The Lancet ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 362 (9386) ◽  
pp. 822-824 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S Yudkin ◽  
Olivia Bayley ◽  
Shaima Elnour ◽  
Chris Willott ◽  
J Jaime Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Global Health ◽  
International Health ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Bachelor Of Science ◽  
Science Degree

scholarly journals Postgraduate psychiatry training for global mental health: a Canadian experience

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 16-18
Author(s):  
Sonia Chehil ◽  
Stan Kutcher
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Global Mental Health ◽  
International Health ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Health Curriculum ◽  
Canadian Experience ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
The Impact

As globalisation has diminished the distance between the developed and developing worlds, it has highlighted the impact of global health issues on domestic health concerns and has underscored the reality of global health disparities. In the Canadian context, there is a need for Canadian physicians to have an understanding of medicine from a global perspective and to appreciate and understand the impact of global health issues on both international and domestic health care. Consequently, there is a need to create and incorporate a global or international health curriculum into general as well as specialty physician training programmes. This will provide future physicians with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to provide globally informed practice in domestic as well as international health.

scholarly journals Peopling Global Health

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Biehl ◽  
Adriana Petryna
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
International Health ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Global Health Initiatives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Initiatives

The field of Global Health brings together a vastly diverse array of actors working to address pressing health issues worldwide with unprecedented financial and technological resources and informed by various agendas. While Global Health initiatives are booming and displacing earlier framings of the field (such as tropical medicine or international health), critical analyses of the social, political, and economic processes associated with this expanding field — an “open source anarchy” on the ground — are still few and far between. In this essay, we contend that, among the powerful players of Global Health, the supposed beneficiaries of interventions are generally lost from view and appear as having little to say or nothing to contribute. We make the case for a more comprehensive and people-centered approach and demonstrate the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in Global Health. By shifting the emphasis from diseases to people and environments, and from trickle-down access to equality, we have the opportunity to set a humane agenda that both realistically confronts challenges and expands our vision of the future of global communities.

scholarly journals Media, Humans and COVID-19 in Africa: A Complex or Symbiotic Relationship?

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngozi Okpara
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
New Normal ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ways Of Life

ABSTRACT Prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Africa had peculiar shared values engraved in cultural and traditional heritages. These values dictated the socio-political and economic ways of life and largely set a precedence for how they were harnessed. The outbreak of COVID-19 caused a paradigm shift in the ways humans in traditional African societies conducted their lives. Africans as well as other people across the globe were forced to conform to the “new normal”, with the media being at the centre of information dissemination and enforcer of values. Findings revealed that media dependence during the pandemic complicated how the human person reacted and managed health issues during the lockdown which was induced by the global health emergency. In view of this, it was recommended that media focuses on the provision of solutions and constructively drive public enlightenment through the effective and factual reportage of issues in the society.

China, International Society, and Global Health Governance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Youde
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Global Health ◽  
International Society ◽  
Global Health Governance ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship

China possesses the world’s largest economy, but that economic clout has not necessarily translated into taking leading roles within existing global health governance institutions and processes. It is a country that both contributes to and receives financial assistance from global health institutions. It has incorporated health into some of its foreign policy activities, but it has largely avoided proactively engaging with the values and norms embodied within the global health governance system. This ambivalent relationship reflects larger questions about how and whether China fits within international society and what its engagement or lack thereof might portend for international society’s future. This chapter examines China’s place within global health governance by examining its interactions with international society on global health issues, its use of health as a foreign policy tool, and its relationships with global health governance organizations.

Developing a Guideline of Good Practice in a North–South Health Research Collaboration: A Participatory Approach

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgit Jentsch ◽  
Julia Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Health Research ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
International Health ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Open Relationships ◽  
Reference Document

North–South health research collaborations have a colonial history, and a contested presence in which organisations from resource-poor countries depend on collaborations with grant-holding institutions from affluent countries. Despite this sensitive context, there is a remarkable lack of guidance to support North–South health research collaborations in a comprehensive manner. A reference document of practical advice can establish standards from the beginning, thereby promoting equitable and open relationships. This article explains the process and some results of the development of such a document – a Guideline of Good Practice (GGP)– for the international health research collaboration Initiative for Maternal Mortality Programme Assessment (IMMPACT).

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