Quie and Peterson Global Health Lecture
Decolonizing Global Health: Tackling Epistemic Injustice and Unfair Knowledge Practices
Unfair knowledge practices in global health reinforce inequities and violate the dignity of those affected. These practices favor the perspectives of high-income country, and otherwise privileged, researchers and institutions while simultaneously failing to remedy the problems they purport to solve.
Global health academic research, unfortunately, lacks adequate representation from the global South and otherwise marginalized groups and remains deeply entrenched in a culture of colonialism that is counterproductive to its aims.
Our eighth annual Quie and Peterson Lecture focuses on the issue of epistemic injustice in global health and how academicians can identify their own biases, what holds those biases in place, and create practices better tailored to serve the communities they work with.
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Student Lunch and Viewing Event
An in-person viewing session of this webinar will also be held on the UMN campus at the Health Sciences and Education Center building and include food and refreshments. This in-person viewing is an opportunity for health sciences students to watch the webinar with lunch provided. All are welcome!
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Speakers
Seye Abimbola: Dr. Seye Abimbola is a health systems researcher from Nigeria. He is currently based at the University of Sydney in Australia, where he is an associate professor and principal research fellow. His teaching and research focus on knowledge practices in global health, health system governance, and the adoption and scale up of health system innovations. Dr. Abimbola was awarded the Prince Claus Chair at Utrecht University in the Netherlands for his work on justice in global health research (2020-2022). He also received an Australian Research Council Discovery Award to study dignity-based knowledge practices in global health (2023-2025). Dr. Abimbola was the inaugural editor in chief of BMJ Global Health (2015-2024), and a Radulovacki Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University in the United States of America (2023-2024). His book, a collected volume of old and new essays titled, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health," will be published by Editions IRD later in 2024.
Shailey Prasad: Shailey Prasad, MD, MPH, the executive director of the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility, will moderate the event.