Decolonising global health research: Shifting power for transformative change.
| Autor: | Kumar R; United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.; Department of Community and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka., Khosla R; United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., McCoy D; United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | PLOS global public health [PLOS Glob Public Health] 2024 Apr 24; Vol. 4 (4), pp. e0003141. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 24 (Print Publication: 2024). |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pgph.0003141 |
| Abstrakt: | Recent debates on decolonizing global health have spurred interest in addressing the power asymmetries and knowledge hierarchies that sustain colonial ideas and relationships in global health research. This paper applies three intersecting dimensions of colonialism (colonialism within global health; colonisation of global health; and colonialism through global health) to develop a broader and more structural understanding of the policies and actions needed to decolonise global health research. It argues that existing guidelines and checklists designed to make global health research more equitable do not adequately address the underlying power asymmetries and biases that prevail across the global health research ecosystem. Beyond encouraging fairer partnerships within individual research projects, this paper calls for more emphasis on shifting the balance of decision-making power, redistributing resources, and holding research funders and other power-holders accountable to the places and peoples involved in and impacted by global health research. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. (Copyright: © 2024 Kumar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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