Seye Abimbola and Madhu Pai ask: Will global health survive its decolonisation?

… An equal, inclusive, just, and diverse global health architecture without a hint of supremacy is not global health as we know it today.

The authors argue in their article in the Lancet that supremacy in global health, one of the problems that still pervades every aspects of the discipline, is one that goes beyond the relationships of the North and the South, high and low income countries, race, and male domination into every aspect of it from locations, to knowledge production and consumptions, to the very nature of its architecture.

They go then to imagine what a global health that has no hint of supremacy, that is truly decolonised, looks like.

Headquarters won’t be the seats of power, authorship of knowledge won’t be reserved for scientists from the North, and diversity and inclusion in human resources won’t mask the need for radical reform across all aspects of global health.

Will global health survive its decolonisation? the authors say: “maybe”, but that is contingent on true committment and true reform.