Decolonizing Global Health

Harvard HSPH

Widening inequality, enduring patterns of extraction, persistent power imbalances, and ongoing marginalization stand in stark opposition with the goals of global health and standard narratives of its triumphs. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought additional awareness to racial, economic, and other inequalities within and between societies, and also has raised questions about why so much unfairness endures. This course engages and interrogates colonialism and its sequelae as major causes of…