Dr. John Kulesa, a former REACH Resident at Children’s National and current fellow in hospitalist medicine published an article on decolonizing global health in BMJ Global Health. Co-authored with Nana Afua Brantuo at the University of Maryland, College Park, the article points out the complications of educational partnership between high-income and low- and middle-income countries due to the history of colonization. While global educational partnership aims to center bi-directional initiatives, the context of colonialism requires the adoption of a ‘decolonised’ perspective to counter implicit power structures, the authors argue.
However, while there are existing recommendations for how to decolonize other aspects of global health, guidance for educational initiatives in particular is lacking. The authors aim to address this gap in the scholarship by identifying and providing strategies to overcome barriers to the implementation of recommended practices for decolonizing global educational partnerships.
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