Decolonising global health

Beyond ‘reformative’ roadmaps and towards decolonial thought

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ID21880975
AutoresMonica Mitra Chaudhuri (0000-0002-7831-4574, Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, Orillia, Ontario, Canada), Laura Mkumba (0000-0002-7402-481X, Family Health International 360), Yadurshini Raveendran (0000-0002-0523-0097, Family Health International 360, autor correspondente), Robert D Smith (0000-0002-4880-6009, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
Ano2021
Volume6
Fascículo7
Páginase006371
Data de publicação2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBMJ Global Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2059-7908 • E-ISSN: 2059-7908
EditoraBMJ (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006371
PMID34244205
OpenAlexW3181572250
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas42
Referências citadas10

box In March 2021, Khan et al published a commentary titled ‘Decolonising global health in 2021: a roadmap to move from rhetoric to reform’ in BMJ Global Health .1 To our knowledge, under the decolonising global health umbrella, this is the first publication to make explicit how to move from theory to practice. However, we express concern over the prescriptive nature of this commentary, namely in its call for ‘metrics,’ ‘checklists,’ and a ‘map’—unironically all tactics that have been and are used by colonisers to assert violence. In this commentary, we directly respond to Khan et al and join the larger discussion on what it may mean for decolonising global health to move from theory to practice. First, we address the definition of decolonisation in decolonial thought, followed by the definition used by Khan et al . Second, we critically deconstruct the suggested “roadmap,” and conclude that these “reforms” will not realise the definition of decolonisation. Finally, we suggest conceptual frameworks that may be better suited to think through decolonisation in the global health industry. We recognise that the decolonisation of the global health industry can take different forms

Decolonization · Epistemology · Global health · Health care · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Rhetoric · Sociology · Global Health and Surgery · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Philosophy · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research