Reading List
This reading list is constantly evolving. Please feel free to email us at dukedgh@gmail.com or tweet us @dukedecolonize if you have suggestions for additional reading material.
Articles
Abimbola, Seye: The foreign gaze: authorship in academic global health
Bhattacharya, Sanjoy and Campani, Carlos: Reassessing the Foundations of Smallpox Eradication
Birn, Anne-Emmanuelle: Philanthrocapitalism, past and present: The Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates Foundation, and the setting(s) of the international/global health agenda
Datta, Ranjan: Decolonizing Both Researcher and Research and Its Effectiveness in Indigenous Research
Green, Andrew The Activists Trying to ‘Decolonize’ Global Health
Guinto, Renzo #DecolonizeGlobalHealth: Rewriting The Narrative of Global Health
Jumbam, Desmond: How (not) To Write About Global Health
Karan, Abraar: Opinion: It’s Time To End The Colonial Mindset in Global Health
Lancet Global Health: Decolonising COVID-19
Pai, Madhukar: 10 Fixes for Global Health Consulting Malpractice
Pai, Madhukar: Global Health Research Needs a Makeover
Pai, Madhukar: Can We Reimagine Global Health in the Post-Pandemic World
Richardson, Eugene, McGinnis, Timothy, and Frankfurter, Raphael: Ebola and the Narrative of Mistrust
Richardson, Eugene: Pandemicity, COVID-19 and the limits of public health ‘science’
Saha, Sudipta, Kavattur, Purvaja, Goheer, Amina The C-Word: Tackling The Enduring Legacy of Colonialism in Global Health
Tuck, Eve and Yang, K. Wayne: Decolonization is Not a Metaphor
Books
Biehl, Joao and Petryana, Adriana When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health
Crane, Johanna Taylor Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science
Fanon, Frantz Black Skin, White Masks
Fanon, Frantz Wretched of the Earth
Mignolo, Walter Globalization and the Decolonial Option
Mignolo, Walter On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
Ngugi wa Thiong’o Decolonising the Mind
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Washington, Harriet Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Other Reading and Syllabi
Green, Monica The Emergence of Global Health (Spring 2012 Syllabus)
Pai, Madhukar: Global Health Research Needs More than a Makeover video of UCSF grand rounds presentation
University of California Berkeley: Decolonizing Bodies in Public Health
University of Michigan: Decolonizing Public Health Proposed Syllabus
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: Decolonizing Global Health Conference Reading List