Decolonizing Global Health

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Recent calls to decolonize global health reflect a growing awareness of the failure of global health to address persistent colonial/imperial attitudes, structural racism, and power asymmetries. Global health trainees, educators, and practitioners must interrogate their own colonial history, study theories of decolonization and indigenous activist movements, confront systemic/structural racism, and articulate transformative solutions. This course offers a brief, but wide-ranging, overview of some of the most critical questions shaping the Decolonize Global Health movement, and guides students to formulate actionable strategies to decolonize global health curriculum, research, and practice. Open only to Global Health master's students. Taught online.