How to prevent equity efforts from losing steam in global health academia

Bandara, Shashika; Banerjee, Ananya

doi:10.1371/journal.pgph.0001656

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“…The Omicron variant during the last COVID-19 pandemic brought this discrimination into sharp focus when many countries in the global north closed their borders to South Africa and other African countries after South Africa proactively sequenced the variant 37. Additionally, the continuing lack of human mobility continues today, with many global health scholars from the global south being refused entry to the global north for conferences and other international health collaborations 35 39…”

Section: The Characteristics Of Digital Health Colonialitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Colonialism in the new digital health agenda

Sekalala,

Chatikobo

2024

BMJ Glob Health

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The advancement of digital technologies has stimulated immense excitement about the possibilities of transforming healthcare, especially in resource-constrained contexts. For many, this rapid growth presents a ‘digital health revolution’. While this is true, there are also dangers that the proliferation of digital health in the global south reinforces existing colonialities. Underpinned by the rhetoric of modernity, rationality and progress, many countries in the global south are pushing for digital health transformation in ways that ignore robust regulation, increase commercialisation and disregard local contexts, which risks heightened inequalities. We propose a decolonial agenda for digital health which shifts the liner and simplistic understanding of digital innovation as the magic wand for health justice. In our proposed approach, we argue for both conceptual and empirical reimagination of digital health agendas in ways that centre indigenous and intersectional theories. This enables the prioritisation of local contexts and foregrounds digital health regulatory infrastructures as a possible site of both struggle and resistance. Our decolonial digital health agenda critically reflects on who is benefitting from digital health systems, centres communities and those with lived experiences and finally introduces robust regulation to counter the social harms of digitisation.

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Section: The Characteristics Of Digital Health Colonialitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Colonialism in the new digital health agenda

Sekalala,

Chatikobo

2024

BMJ Glob Health

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“…Holding conferences in LMICs makes learning and networking accessible to the broadest range of stakeholders and benefits the local economy. When organising events, ECRs must understand the national visa system, endorse delegates’ applications and work with our institutions to lobby for streamlined conference visas 9. To maximise accessibility, speaker invitations and acceptances must be issued far in advance, with events scheduled at the most affordable times of year.…”

Section: Strengthen Capacitymentioning

confidence: 99%