Epistemic repair in global health: a human rights approach towards epistemic justice

Epistemic Responsibility and Community Engagement in Sindiwe Magona’s Beauty’s Gift

“…Beauty's words, "ukhule ukhokhobe", implying a long life, offer a vision to her friends, helping them garner a profound and intricate epistemic understanding of the deeprooted malaises that need to be curtailed to alleviate the problem of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Beauty recognizes that the inability of marginalized groups in the field of global health to comprehend their experiences due to a lack of shared interpretative resources, as well as the disregard for their interpretive frameworks results in the infringement of their dignity and the violation of their basic human rights (Bhakuni 2023). As such, she acknowledges her limited understanding and accepts the consequences of her actions as she strives to save her friends from experiencing a "similar fate" (Magona 2008, 109), and motivate them to embrace life with heightened epistemic awareness.…”

Decoloniality in global health research: ten tasks for early career researchers

“…Intrinsic to decolonial global health research is not only avoiding epistemic injustice 14 but also pursuing epistemic justice. 15 Through educating ourselves and engaging with decoloniality, we will all identify mistakes by ourselves and our teams. Each is an opportunity to reflect, learn and change for the better, while some failures may yet be amenable to repair.…”

“…If global health is to become meaningfully decolonial, we must all reckon with our previous injustices and commit to working with knowers to produce, use, and disseminate knowledge with commensurate dignity and respect. 15 CONCLUSION Being an ECR is highly competitive. Feeling disempowered can perpetuate dichotomies, such as perceiving all as either oppressors or oppressed.…”

Redefining global health and shifting the balance: the ARC-H principle

“…2 This article unpacks the concept's origins and proposes the 'ARC-H' principle as a pragmatic step to rebalance the narrative, not least in pursuit of epistemic justice within global health. 3…”