Mayeni: ‘’I wanted to exhaust labor at home… but it was too late’’ “My name is Mayeni… I am 28, I have four kids, three girls and a boy… That day, my husband was on trip in Forécariah [city]. In the afternoon, when I was drying up rice seeds in the sunshine, I felt pain in my stomach. I realized that this was labor because durin...

If anyone ever doubts the value of the Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) programme, they only need to watch the just concluded Africa Convening to be convinced. Two EVs and young rising public health stars, Shehnaz Munshi (EV 2018) and Lance Louskieter (EV 2020), collaborated with Health Systems Global (HSG), the Atlantic Institute, Teka...

In early February when I began to understand that there would be some sort of cross-border epidemic emanating from China, I began to become obsessed by the prospect that the crisis would be taken advantage of by individuals, groups, institutions, and even, countries for their own benefit.  Some of you reading this might be thinking that is a rea...

Indian civil society networks and health professionals are urgently demanding better regulation of the for-profit private healthcare sector. India’s health system is dominated by the for-profit private healthcare sector, which accounts for around 75% of outpatient care. In 2016-17, the hospital industry in India was already worth around Rs. 4 ...

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing” (Arundhati Roy) In March 2019 a group of researchers and practitioners met in Accra, Ghana, the first sub-Saharan nation freed from colonial rule, to interrogate what a decolonial lens offers for developing an activist agenda for health policy an...

Within the global health community, the need to decolonise global health is becoming increasingly clear, and indeed, the idea may soon become a “universally acknowledged truth” (which may, admittedly, take years to actualise). When we talk about decolonising global health however, the focus is often on the Global South, representation (diver...

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination” Henry David Thoreau Nothing provides humanity with such of an opportunity as that of a crisis. At the beginning of 2020, many of us working in the field of health policy and systems research continued about our daily tasks in a routine manner, following the expert prescriptions we hoped would he...

Decolonizing health in Africa is a conscientization project, historical and political in nature, that calls for a (k)new language and (k)new ways of being as thinkers and practitioners. On the 30th September 2020, 1st and 2nd October 2020, we plan to host a virtual Africa convening  to have a conversation about decoloniality in the broader fie...

The novel coronavirus has spread from China to over 170 countries – including all African countries – with millions of cases and hundreds of thousands of deaths globally. Egypt recorded Africa’s first COVID-19 case on February 14, 2020. In six months, the continent has gone from one to a million confirmed cases with over 700, 000 recoveries. A...