The burden of decolonising global health

Rasheed writes about the need to reframe the approach towards decolonising global health, giving a moral call for “global south” actors to say no to funding when there is no value alignment.1 The proposal comes with an associated moral struggle for people, like me, who straddle the global health ecosystem: do I take the resources being offered for the cause of improving health and wellbeing and try to navigate values pragmatically? Or do I say a firm “no” and nip the problem in the bud? Which is the bigger moral cause? Perhaps the answers to these questions are deeply personal and to be pondered individually.The bigger question raised by the article that needs collective pondering by the global health community is: in the deeply feudal ecosystem of global health,2 what motivation do “global north” actors have to give up their power and start aligning their values with the global south?…
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