Michelle Amri and colleagues analyzed 91 articles on decolonizing global health, and noted a considerable lack of consensus regarding what ‘decolonization’ means. They concluded that decolonization of global health involves:
- Overhauling existing unequal power structures,
- Establishing agency and self-determination of the Global South,
- Epistemic reformation and epistemic and ontological pluralism,
- Education, and
- Inclusivity, solidarity, and allyship.
They noted that only only 22% of first authors of retrieved articles had an affiliation in a low- and/or middle-income country. Can decolonization emanate from the colonizers, who control the inequitable power, epistemic, and other structures?
Check out their analysis: Decolonizing global health: a scoping review of its key components, proposed actions, and contributors