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Global health education in high-income countries: confronting coloniality and power asymmetry.

Hoda SayeghChristina HardenHijab KhanMadhukar PaiQuentin G EichbaumCharles IbingiraGelila Goba
Published in: BMJ global health (2022)
Contemporary global health education is overwhelmingly skewed towards high-income countries (HICs). HIC-based global health curricula largely ignore colonial origins of global health to the detriment of all stakeholders, including trainees and affected community members of low- and middle-income countries. Using the Consortium of Universities for Global Health's Global Health Education Competencies Tool-Kit , we analyse the current structure and content of global health curricula in HICs. We identify two major areas in global health education that demand attention: (1) the use of a competency-based education framework and (2) the shortcomings of curricular content. We propose actionable changes that challenge current power asymmetries in global health education.
Keyphrases
  • global health
  • public health
  • healthcare
  • quality improvement
  • physical activity
  • primary care
  • medical education