Global health has the outwardly stated aim of achieving equitable health for all. But if there is one lesson to be learnt from the Covid pandemic, it is that we are a long way from achieving this.
A new generation of scientist-activists are trying to bridge the gap between global health’s explicit goal and its current functioning. They are part of an emerging movement commonly referred to as ‘decolonizing global health’, and a core issue they are grappling with is the way power and resources are controlled.
Global Health: Prescription for a fairer world
Covid has highlighted the need for the West to loosen its grip on global health resources, write Mishal Khan and Renzo Guinto
The World Today
Published 1 August 2021
Updated 30 July 2021 — 3 minute READ
Image — Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines from the United Arab Emirates are unloaded on arrival in the Gaza Strip
