Decolonising global health: where are the Southern voices?
Samuel Oti, Jabulani Ncayiyana
Abstract
### Summary box As evidenced by a plethora of publications, webinars, and social media hashtags, the last year or two have seen an amplification of calls for the decolonisation of global health.1–5 These calls have largely been virtually echoed in the hallways of academic institutions in the Global North such as the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Duke University and Harvard University. For reasons which we can only speculate about such as fear of retaliation or feelings of powerlessness, the voices of global health institutions and practitioners based in the Global South have largely been absent amidst the calls for decolonisation. Nevertheless, the rising wave of discontent with the power imbalances that plague the practice of global health is, without doubt, long overdue. This is even more pertinent and timely given that the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating global health inequalities.6 For example, it is no secret that countries in the Global North which …