Marie Meudec
Biographic Data
| ID | 829067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marie Meudec |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Meudec |
| SIGNATURE | MEUDEC M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2435-4471 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reciprocity in global health: How successes from the global south can inform global health interventions in Canada and the U.S
Global health has traditionally functioned as a project of high-income countries (HICs) addressing health challenges in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This “outward facing” orientation has created conceptual and operational boundaries that obscure the persistence of health inequities within HICs and perpetuates the false assumption that resource-rich nations have resolved fundamental health equity challenges in their own countries. In …
The ‘Other’ face of health security: Reimagining epistemic attachments in global health
The ‘health security’ paradigm has reshaped global health since Covid-19, framing infectious diseases as existential threats and targeting marginalised populations as risky ‘others’ to surveil and contain. However, its exclusionary consequences for those ‘othered’ remain underexamined, particularly from the perspective of lived experience. Drawing on ethnographic and archival case studies in Lebanon, Nepal, Serbia, and Syria (2021–2025), we exami…
Addressing historical biases and the limits of biomedical commodities in vector-borne disease control in Africa
In this essay, we describe efforts to curtail the spread of vector-borne infections and how these efforts are entangled in the causes and consequences of the destruction of life, and the ecosystems which support life, on our planet. Using examples from malaria and sleeping sickness, we show how current efforts to control vector-borne diseases reflect the Western logic of a highly compartmentalized, hierarchical approach, dominated by biomedicine …
A decolonial feminist perspective on gender equality programming in the Global South
The feminisms emerging from postcolonial regions of the Global South have critiqued gender equality initiatives that adapt to, rather than dismantle, racist, capitalist, and patriarchal systems. They call for an exploration of how these initiatives become hosts to oppressive forces that derail gender equality efforts and worsen the health and well-being of women and girls in the Global South. Drawing on decolonial feminist perspectives, this pape…
Navigating power hierarchies in the “field”: A qualitative exploration of researcher experiences
Despite increasing focus on the broad topic of power hierarchies within research partnerships, scholarly analysis and guidance within global health tends to focus on partnership-building, governance structures and authorship, while the interactions occurring between researchers in settings where a project or community are located, often referred to as the “field”, remains a neglected topic. This study applies an intersectional lens to explore how…
Complicity or accountability? The limits of positionality statements
In recent years, positionality/reflexivity statements have become increasingly common in global health, qualitative health research, and bioethics.Often framed as practices of reflexivity, recently they are also taken up as part of decolonial projects.Yet their growing prevalence invites a critical pause.I argue that thin positionality statements can function less as transformative practices and more as strategies for securing moral innocence, al…
Beyond Covid-19, the case for collecting, analysing and using sex-disaggregated data and gendered data to inform outbreak response: A scoping review
INTRODUCTION: Understanding sex and gender differences during outbreaks is critical to delivering an effective response. Although recommendations and minimum requirements exist, the incorporation of sex-disaggregated data and gender analysis into outbreak analytics and response for informed decision-making remains infrequent. A scoping review was conducted to provide an overview of the extent of sex-disaggregated data and gender analysis in outbr…
Beyond the pill: Understanding barriers and enablers to oral and long-acting injectable PrEP among women in sex work in Zambia
Women engaging in sex work (WESW) in low- and middle-income countries face a disproportionately high risk of HIV infection. This study explores enablers and barriers to the uptake and persistence of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and long-acting injectable PrEP (LAI-PrEP) among WESW in Lusaka, Zambia. We evaluated Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation behavioral domains, using the COM-B model, which affectied behavioral engagement with Pr…
Reimagining open science for global health: Epistemic power and the pursuit of health equity
This paper critically examines how current forms of Open Science (OS) fall short of advancing health equity in global health. While OS is promoted as a public good, promising transparency, efficiency, and inclusive, current practices often reproduce rather than dismantle entrenched inequities. Data-sharing infrastructures and open-access policies, largely shaped by high-income countries, frequently extract from but fail to empower low- and middle…
Towards a Feminist Global Health Policy: Power, intersectionality, and transformation
In the realm of global health policy, the intricacies of power dynamics and intersectionality have become increasingly evident. Structurally embedded power hierarchies constitute a significant concern in achieving health for all and demand transformational change. Adopting intersectional feminist approaches potentially mitigates health inequities through more inclusive and responsive health policies. While feminist approaches to foreign and devel…
Outbreak of cholera in the Southwest region of Cameroon, 2021-22: An epidemiological investigation
We report the largest cholera outbreak in the Southwest region. Our findings suggest the cross-border spread of cases from the Nigerian outbreak, likely driven by overcrowding in major cities. Our study highlights the need for cross-border surveillance, especially during humanitarian crises
Sub-Saharan African communities’ experiences and engagement with Covid-19 and the related control strategies in Antwerp, Belgium
Pre-existing disparities influenced the perceptions of and attitudes towards COVID-19 and its control strategies among SSA communities. To better design support and control strategies targeted to specific groups, we need to not only involve communities and address their specific needs and concerns, but also build on their strengths and resilience. This will remain important in the context of widening disparities and future epidemics
Responding to the information and prevention needs of sub-Saharan African communities in Antwerp at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic
Pre-existing racial and ethnic disparities in health, sustained by complex and intersecting socio-economic and structural inequities have exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is limited evidence about how communities have experience the COVID-19 epidemic, and their perception of the causes and effects of COVID-19 related burden. This hinders true engagement with communities and co-creation of comprehensive prevention strategies includi…
Decolonisation initiatives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium: Ready for change
In a global context, the pernicious effects of colonialism and coloniality are increasingly being recognised in many sectors. As a result, calls to reverse colonial aphasia and amnesia, and decolonise, are getting stronger. This raises a number of questions, particularly for entities that acted as agents of (previous) colonising countries and worked to further the progress of the colonial project: What does decolonisation mean for such historical…
Covid-19 as a social disease: Qualitative analysis of Covid-19 prevention needs, impact of control measures and community responses among racialized/ethnic minorities in Antwerp, Belgium
Study participants' narratives showed how coping with and responding to COVID-19 was strongly intertwined with socio-economic and ethnic/racial characteristics. This justifies conceptualizing COVID-19 a social disease. At the same time, communities demonstrated resilience in responding to these structural vulnerabilities. From a health equity perspective, we provide concrete policy recommendations grounded in insights into communities' structural…
Understanding how communities respond to Covid-19: Experiences from the Orthodox Jewish communities of Antwerp city
The experiences of Orthodox Jewish communities in Antwerp demonstrate a valuable example of a feasible community-centered approach to health emergencies. Increasing the engagement of communities in local decision-making and governance structures remains a key strategy to respond to unmet information and prevention needs
Le profilage racial à Montréal, effets des politiques et des pratiques organisationnelles
L’article décrit les résultats d’une enquête qualitative sur le profilage racial présent dans les pratiques policières et vécu par des jeunes de minorités racisées à Montréal, Québec. Dans plus de la moitié des 48 entrevues réalisées, des jeunes ont partagé des expériences de profilage racial provenant de policiers. Les résultats obtenus révèlent que ce profilage racial n’est pas seulement (ou même principalement) le produit de préjugés de la par…
Ethical immanence
Ethical judgement suffuses everyday life: it is not only objectified in rules or codes, experienced as duty, or realised as reason distinct from action. Nor in its primary manifestations is the ethical realised as a separate domain of thought, activity or expertise. The possibility that we explore in this collection is that ethics is immanent to action and to social life more generally, within it rather than at arm's length from it. Our intention…
Résistance
Aborder la notion de résistance en sciences sociales, c’est penser à ses diverses formes – exceptionnelles ou ordinaires – selon les contextes. Quelles pratiques in/exclut-on dans notre conception de ce terme ? Penchons-nous aussi sur ses formes invisibilisées et quotidiennes, sur ses conditions de possibilité et sur le nécessaire dé-centrement de la pensée de la résistance en sciences sociales
Ordinary Ethics of Spiritual Work and Healing in St. Lucia, or Why Not to Use the Term Obeah
The purpose of this essay is to understand the language of spiritual work and healing in St. Lucia as well as the moral impregnation of the term obeah. This ethnographic study of ordinary ethics of obeah explores the significant gap between the designation and auto-legitimation of healers and spiritual workers. Because, in most cases, the term is not used by practitioners to identify their spiritual and healing practice, the author proposes to re…
Éthique pragmatique de la recherche anthropologique: Le cas d’une étude de l’obeah à Sainte-Lucie
La constitution des comités d’éthique est assez récente dans le domaine de l’anthropologie et ils soumettent la recherche dans ce domaine à bien des obligations — avant, pendant et après le terrain. Une recherche à Ste-Lucie en 2006, basée sur une compréhension des discours et des rumeurs de sorcellerie et des processus de construction du raisonnement moral associés à l’ obeah , servira ici à montrer comment le respect des règlements ou des princ…
Une anthropologie des moralités de l'obeah à Ste-Lucie (Note de recherche)
Cette note de recherche vise à démontrer, à partir des discours de et sur l'obeah à Ste-Lucie, que ce terme, outre le fait qu'il réfère de manière générale à des pratiques magiques et thérapeutiques dans la Caraïbe, doit également être considéré comme révélateur de jugements moraux. L'ethnographie des moralités locales de l'obeah, via la succession de rencontres avec une guérisseuse, permet de comprendre les ethnoéthiques reliées aux pratiques de…
Ethical immanence
Ethical judgement suffuses everyday life: it is not only objectified in rules or codes, experienced as duty, or realised as reason distinct from action. Nor in its primary manifestations is the ethical realised as a separate domain of thought, activity or expertise. The possibility that we explore in this collection is that ethics is immanent to action and to social life more generally, within it rather than at arm's length from it. Our intention…
Decolonisation initiatives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium: Ready for change
In a global context, the pernicious effects of colonialism and coloniality are increasingly being recognised in many sectors. As a result, calls to reverse colonial aphasia and amnesia, and decolonise, are getting stronger. This raises a number of questions, particularly for entities that acted as agents of (previous) colonising countries and worked to further the progress of the colonial project: What does decolonisation mean for such historical…
Ordinary Ethics of Spiritual Work and Healing in St. Lucia, or Why Not to Use the Term Obeah
The purpose of this essay is to understand the language of spiritual work and healing in St. Lucia as well as the moral impregnation of the term obeah. This ethnographic study of ordinary ethics of obeah explores the significant gap between the designation and auto-legitimation of healers and spiritual workers. Because, in most cases, the term is not used by practitioners to identify their spiritual and healing practice, the author proposes to re…
Une anthropologie des moralités de l'obeah à Ste-Lucie (Note de recherche)
Cette note de recherche vise à démontrer, à partir des discours de et sur l'obeah à Ste-Lucie, que ce terme, outre le fait qu'il réfère de manière générale à des pratiques magiques et thérapeutiques dans la Caraïbe, doit également être considéré comme révélateur de jugements moraux. L'ethnographie des moralités locales de l'obeah, via la succession de rencontres avec une guérisseuse, permet de comprendre les ethnoéthiques reliées aux pratiques de…
Éthique pragmatique de la recherche anthropologique: Le cas d’une étude de l’obeah à Sainte-Lucie
La constitution des comités d’éthique est assez récente dans le domaine de l’anthropologie et ils soumettent la recherche dans ce domaine à bien des obligations — avant, pendant et après le terrain. Une recherche à Ste-Lucie en 2006, basée sur une compréhension des discours et des rumeurs de sorcellerie et des processus de construction du raisonnement moral associés à l’ obeah , servira ici à montrer comment le respect des règlements ou des princ…
Une anthropologie des moralités de l'obeah à Ste-Lucie (Note de recherche)
Cette note de recherche vise à démontrer, à partir des discours de et sur l'obeah à Ste-Lucie, que ce terme, outre le fait qu'il réfère de manière générale à des pratiques magiques et thérapeutiques dans la Caraïbe, doit également être considéré comme révélateur de jugements moraux. L'ethnographie des moralités locales de l'obeah, via la succession de rencontres avec une guérisseuse, permet de comprendre les ethnoéthiques reliées aux pratiques de…
Résistance
Aborder la notion de résistance en sciences sociales, c’est penser à ses diverses formes – exceptionnelles ou ordinaires – selon les contextes. Quelles pratiques in/exclut-on dans notre conception de ce terme ? Penchons-nous aussi sur ses formes invisibilisées et quotidiennes, sur ses conditions de possibilité et sur le nécessaire dé-centrement de la pensée de la résistance en sciences sociales
Ordinary Ethics of Spiritual Work and Healing in St. Lucia, or Why Not to Use the Term Obeah
The purpose of this essay is to understand the language of spiritual work and healing in St. Lucia as well as the moral impregnation of the term obeah. This ethnographic study of ordinary ethics of obeah explores the significant gap between the designation and auto-legitimation of healers and spiritual workers. Because, in most cases, the term is not used by practitioners to identify their spiritual and healing practice, the author proposes to re…
Ethical immanence
Ethical judgement suffuses everyday life: it is not only objectified in rules or codes, experienced as duty, or realised as reason distinct from action. Nor in its primary manifestations is the ethical realised as a separate domain of thought, activity or expertise. The possibility that we explore in this collection is that ethics is immanent to action and to social life more generally, within it rather than at arm's length from it. Our intention…
Le profilage racial à Montréal, effets des politiques et des pratiques organisationnelles
L’article décrit les résultats d’une enquête qualitative sur le profilage racial présent dans les pratiques policières et vécu par des jeunes de minorités racisées à Montréal, Québec. Dans plus de la moitié des 48 entrevues réalisées, des jeunes ont partagé des expériences de profilage racial provenant de policiers. Les résultats obtenus révèlent que ce profilage racial n’est pas seulement (ou même principalement) le produit de préjugés de la par…
Understanding how communities respond to Covid-19: Experiences from the Orthodox Jewish communities of Antwerp city
The experiences of Orthodox Jewish communities in Antwerp demonstrate a valuable example of a feasible community-centered approach to health emergencies. Increasing the engagement of communities in local decision-making and governance structures remains a key strategy to respond to unmet information and prevention needs
Covid-19 as a social disease: Qualitative analysis of Covid-19 prevention needs, impact of control measures and community responses among racialized/ethnic minorities in Antwerp, Belgium
Study participants' narratives showed how coping with and responding to COVID-19 was strongly intertwined with socio-economic and ethnic/racial characteristics. This justifies conceptualizing COVID-19 a social disease. At the same time, communities demonstrated resilience in responding to these structural vulnerabilities. From a health equity perspective, we provide concrete policy recommendations grounded in insights into communities' structural…
Sub-Saharan African communities’ experiences and engagement with Covid-19 and the related control strategies in Antwerp, Belgium
Pre-existing disparities influenced the perceptions of and attitudes towards COVID-19 and its control strategies among SSA communities. To better design support and control strategies targeted to specific groups, we need to not only involve communities and address their specific needs and concerns, but also build on their strengths and resilience. This will remain important in the context of widening disparities and future epidemics
Responding to the information and prevention needs of sub-Saharan African communities in Antwerp at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic
Pre-existing racial and ethnic disparities in health, sustained by complex and intersecting socio-economic and structural inequities have exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is limited evidence about how communities have experience the COVID-19 epidemic, and their perception of the causes and effects of COVID-19 related burden. This hinders true engagement with communities and co-creation of comprehensive prevention strategies includi…
Decolonisation initiatives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium: Ready for change
In a global context, the pernicious effects of colonialism and coloniality are increasingly being recognised in many sectors. As a result, calls to reverse colonial aphasia and amnesia, and decolonise, are getting stronger. This raises a number of questions, particularly for entities that acted as agents of (previous) colonising countries and worked to further the progress of the colonial project: What does decolonisation mean for such historical…
Towards a Feminist Global Health Policy: Power, intersectionality, and transformation
In the realm of global health policy, the intricacies of power dynamics and intersectionality have become increasingly evident. Structurally embedded power hierarchies constitute a significant concern in achieving health for all and demand transformational change. Adopting intersectional feminist approaches potentially mitigates health inequities through more inclusive and responsive health policies. While feminist approaches to foreign and devel…
Outbreak of cholera in the Southwest region of Cameroon, 2021-22: An epidemiological investigation
We report the largest cholera outbreak in the Southwest region. Our findings suggest the cross-border spread of cases from the Nigerian outbreak, likely driven by overcrowding in major cities. Our study highlights the need for cross-border surveillance, especially during humanitarian crises
Beyond Covid-19, the case for collecting, analysing and using sex-disaggregated data and gendered data to inform outbreak response: A scoping review
INTRODUCTION: Understanding sex and gender differences during outbreaks is critical to delivering an effective response. Although recommendations and minimum requirements exist, the incorporation of sex-disaggregated data and gender analysis into outbreak analytics and response for informed decision-making remains infrequent. A scoping review was conducted to provide an overview of the extent of sex-disaggregated data and gender analysis in outbr…
Beyond the pill: Understanding barriers and enablers to oral and long-acting injectable PrEP among women in sex work in Zambia
Women engaging in sex work (WESW) in low- and middle-income countries face a disproportionately high risk of HIV infection. This study explores enablers and barriers to the uptake and persistence of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and long-acting injectable PrEP (LAI-PrEP) among WESW in Lusaka, Zambia. We evaluated Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation behavioral domains, using the COM-B model, which affectied behavioral engagement with Pr…
Reimagining open science for global health: Epistemic power and the pursuit of health equity
This paper critically examines how current forms of Open Science (OS) fall short of advancing health equity in global health. While OS is promoted as a public good, promising transparency, efficiency, and inclusive, current practices often reproduce rather than dismantle entrenched inequities. Data-sharing infrastructures and open-access policies, largely shaped by high-income countries, frequently extract from but fail to empower low- and middle…
Reciprocity in global health: How successes from the global south can inform global health interventions in Canada and the U.S
Global health has traditionally functioned as a project of high-income countries (HICs) addressing health challenges in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This “outward facing” orientation has created conceptual and operational boundaries that obscure the persistence of health inequities within HICs and perpetuates the false assumption that resource-rich nations have resolved fundamental health equity challenges in their own countries. In …
The ‘Other’ face of health security: Reimagining epistemic attachments in global health
The ‘health security’ paradigm has reshaped global health since Covid-19, framing infectious diseases as existential threats and targeting marginalised populations as risky ‘others’ to surveil and contain. However, its exclusionary consequences for those ‘othered’ remain underexamined, particularly from the perspective of lived experience. Drawing on ethnographic and archival case studies in Lebanon, Nepal, Serbia, and Syria (2021–2025), we exami…
Addressing historical biases and the limits of biomedical commodities in vector-borne disease control in Africa
In this essay, we describe efforts to curtail the spread of vector-borne infections and how these efforts are entangled in the causes and consequences of the destruction of life, and the ecosystems which support life, on our planet. Using examples from malaria and sleeping sickness, we show how current efforts to control vector-borne diseases reflect the Western logic of a highly compartmentalized, hierarchical approach, dominated by biomedicine …
A decolonial feminist perspective on gender equality programming in the Global South
The feminisms emerging from postcolonial regions of the Global South have critiqued gender equality initiatives that adapt to, rather than dismantle, racist, capitalist, and patriarchal systems. They call for an exploration of how these initiatives become hosts to oppressive forces that derail gender equality efforts and worsen the health and well-being of women and girls in the Global South. Drawing on decolonial feminist perspectives, this pape…
Navigating power hierarchies in the “field”: A qualitative exploration of researcher experiences
Despite increasing focus on the broad topic of power hierarchies within research partnerships, scholarly analysis and guidance within global health tends to focus on partnership-building, governance structures and authorship, while the interactions occurring between researchers in settings where a project or community are located, often referred to as the “field”, remains a neglected topic. This study applies an intersectional lens to explore how…
Complicity or accountability? The limits of positionality statements
In recent years, positionality/reflexivity statements have become increasingly common in global health, qualitative health research, and bioethics.Often framed as practices of reflexivity, recently they are also taken up as part of decolonial projects.Yet their growing prevalence invites a critical pause.I argue that thin positionality statements can function less as transformative practices and more as strategies for securing moral innocence, al…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · COVID-19 and Mental Health (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Humanities (4 works)