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Decolonising health and medicine: Episode 2 - Looking back to move forward: missing histories of the decolonisation agenda
FromThe BMJ Podcast
Decolonising health and medicine: Episode 2 - Looking back to move forward: missing histories of the decolonisation agenda
FromThe BMJ Podcast
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Length:
54 minutes
Released:
Oct 16, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Experts discuss how failing to confront colonial pasts is linked to present lack of progress in global health equity, why health leaders need historical educations, and how, for Indigenous peoples, it’s not just a colonial history but a colonial present.
Our panel
Seye Abimbola, editor of BMJ Global Health, and health systems researcher from Nigeria currently based at the University of Sydney, Australia
Catherine Kyobutungi, Ugandan epidemiologist and executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, head of the school of history and professor of medical and global health histories, University of Leeds, UK
Chelsea Watego, professor of Indigenous Health at Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Our panel
Seye Abimbola, editor of BMJ Global Health, and health systems researcher from Nigeria currently based at the University of Sydney, Australia
Catherine Kyobutungi, Ugandan epidemiologist and executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, head of the school of history and professor of medical and global health histories, University of Leeds, UK
Chelsea Watego, professor of Indigenous Health at Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Released:
Oct 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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