2024 Quie and Peterson Global Health Lecture: Decolonizing Global Health
The Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility is hosting its eighth annual Quie and Peterson Global Health Lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 8, from 12 – 1:15 p.m.
This year’s topic is Decolonizing Global Health: Tackling Epistemic Injustice and Unfair Knowledge Practices. Dr. Seye Abimbola of the University of Sydney is the event’s featured speaker. Shailey Prasad, MD, MPH, the executive director of the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility, will moderate the event.
Event Description
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.
Register for the Virtual Event
Student Lunch and Viewing Event
An in-person viewing of the webinar will also take place in HSEC 2-138 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!