About Us

We are a group of diverse students, alumni, staff, and faculty from around the world, all associated with the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington.  We seek to build a more equitable and healthy world. Unfortunately, the global health field often fails to live up to its altruistic vision, inadvertently perpetuating harms through its failure to adequately address inequality, colonialism, global theft, structural violence, war, and racism. As global health professionals, through our employment and engagement in the often broken international aid and academic structures, we often tacitly perpetuate structural and systemic violence against the same marginalized communities that we claim to empower. We believe that we have the responsibility to call out what is happening and change the narrative in global health to focus on the social, political, and economic factors that influence the global burden of disease. Our GH Justice team believes that we have a moral responsibility to better understand and address the injustices within our field and beyond and take action to create a more equitable world.