Decolonising Global Health in 2021: A Roadmap to Move from Rhetoric to Reform

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2021

Global health has evolved from colonial and tropical medicine, which were designed to control colonized populations and facilitate their exploitation by European and North American powers. In this article, a roadmap for global health practitioners who want to see rhetoric turn into reforms is proposed, focusing on systemic changes needed in organizations led from high-income countries. The authors first acknowledge that people who have likely benefited from current systems may oppose decolonizing global health, before proposing steps that global health practitioners could take to drive reforms.