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Zaida Orth

Zaida Orth is a PhD candidate at the University of the Western Cape’s (UWC) School of Public Health. She is a registered research psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. She is a PhD fellow at the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) and is currently working there as a consultant. Her research interests include adolescent health, HIV, mental health and gender in health.
 

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Confronting the uncomfortable: Emerging voices’ reflections after a talk on decolonization

Intro (by Farchanda) This year, the Face-to-face (F2F) part of the Emerging Voices (EV) venture was held in Medellin, Colombia from October 20-30, in the run-up to the 7th Global Health Systems Research symposium in Bogota. ‘Decolonizing Global Health’ is such a hot topic nowadays, that it could impossibly be left out of the ‘Bi...

Dimensionality of criticality in HPSR and global health: Thoughts from 2022 Emerging Voices for Global Health Fellows

Criticality in global health cannot be thought of without questioning existing power relationships. Amidst growing global threats against health equity and the changing nature of health policy and systems research (HPSR), it is important to build critical practices in research to ensure that HPSR remains an innovative and relevant discipline th...