“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." ― Edward W. Said

Happy to have contributed to this volume on epidemiological obfuscation (eds Jephcott et al) with a reflection on "Epidemic Corpses and Photographic Obfuscation" comparing Ebola (2014-16) to French colonial approaches to plague in Madagascar www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

The genocide in Gaza is *still* ongoing.

2025 was truly a brutal year for global health and global solidarity In this final episode of Global Health Unfiltered! Podcast, we offer some reflections on what truths were uncovered @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @boghuma.bsky.social @luchuobain.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7qzW...

"Those who hold power in #PublicHealth – international or local – are often removed from the realities of the communities they serve. That recognition should shape decisions and interventions." @seyeabimbola.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d44...

“We urge early childhood development researchers to systematically address well documented biases when assessing needs and to shift towards approaches that fully recognise and build on existing, context-adapted practices, expertise, and aspirations of caregivers and their children around the world.”

“We are concerned the new Lancet Series [Early Childhood Development and the Next 1000 Days] maintains at its core, a deficit model, which can cause harm by misguiding interventions and promoting negative stereotypes about people living in poverty… [and] reflect epistemic injustice.”

The epistemic/belief/political system that created eugenics created Watson's racist & sexist genetics fundamentalism. It also created "apolitical" population health science. It's time to reckon with all else it's done to taint the practice & substance of academic/scientific inquiry. It's a lot!

Last month, I gave the 2024 Quie and Peterson Global Health Lecture at the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility, The University of Minnesota. The video is now available here: t.co/OP5oM5emOu Many thanks to the audience and to @shailey.bsky.social for the invitation and for hosting.

#decolonisation The gaze reversed Seye Abimbola's The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health takes a kaleidoscopic view of the effects of outsider visions and imaginaries on the recipients, contexts, and places... in global health. @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"SOME INSPIRATION FOR YOUR WISHLISTS: To send us all off smiling into the Christmas break, we asked you for your book and film recommendations — and you delivered." pro.politico.eu/news/your-2025-wrapped

I am glad to see large media outlets reporting on this. Hopefully it shames the researchers into not continuing with the planned study or at minimum making sure ALL children in the study receive the birth dose of the HepB vaccine. www.science.org/content/arti...

This is an exceptional article, and I highly recommend you take the time to read it.

Job: 2 years Post-Doc Fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, on the history and sociology of USAID

So pleased to learn that @seyeabimbola.bsky.social has been promoted to full professorship! Bravo, Seye! 🎉 Keep up the inspiring work!!

The epistemic/belief/political system that created eugenics created Watson's racist & sexist genetics fundamentalism. It also created "apolitical" population health science. It's time to reckon with all else it's done to taint the practice & substance of academic/scientific inquiry. It's a lot!

As of today, you can pre-order my book from the Routledge page, and for today only it's 25% off:

@seyeabimbola.bsky.social Help Matea get to the final round with a like and sharing this post! www.youtube.com/watch?v=puAG...

You can now preview the book, which means you can look and search inside, and I think read the acknowledgements (the most personal part of it by far) and the preface - there's a 'preview book' button below the cover:

And autism was never something to be so terrified of that you avoid vaccines for preventable childhood diseases that could disable or kill you and others The inherent ableism of this strain of anti-vaccinationism has always been acute

“there is something wilful about indifference. It is never by chance. It is either willed by the individual or eased by the institutions that structure their practices”

@seyeabimbola 's The Foreign Gaze: Essays on #GlobalHealth is one of our recommended reads this month. And it comes with its own playlist (we approve). #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #publichealth www.amazon.co.uk/Foreign-Gaze...

A short while ago, Dr Janani Shanthosh and I had an engaging conversation about The Foreign Gaze, which she's now beautifully captured in text and audio. It's the first in her series of interviews titled On Theory. Please read, listen, and follow the series. Here goes ontheory.com/interviews/s...

I did both history & ethics as part of my MPH but the classes were a tiny % of overall student intake. Those subjects provided vital context & Qs for everything else I learned. Moving beyond the ☑️ or "minimalist, procedural, institution-protecting ethics of ethics committees or peer review" ...👇

Epistemic dignity I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Epistemic dignity I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Epistemic dignity I wrote an essay on this important book for @TheLancet: "Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians" (edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith). Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

“I think oftentimes when people talk about this history, they usually focus on cis gay men . . . But there is a really exciting new, newish field of study, of scholars who are uncovering stories of people who were lesbians, bisexual, transgender and those really untold stories.”

Power, inequity, and the work of solidarity. During the 2025 Global Health Solidarity Open Forum, Seye Abimbola named the hard truths: power imbalances, inequities, and injustices often block real solidarity and keep communities at the margins. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ril...

@seyeabimbola.bsky.social‘s work majorly inspires the next gathering of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation, scrutinising gaze beyond the global North/South binary bsky.app/profile/asso...

On the power and injustice of the foreign gaze: “But it is also about power – the kind that distances people. That foreign audience might be a powerful policymaker, a set of academics, or a philanthropist. The question is always: who is looking, from where, and what gets distorted in the process?”

(this is true of politics and journalism too)

Love this - and agree with it too!! 👇

“At twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, my heroes were people who had been jailed, exiled, or killed for speaking out. I understood very early that to be a human being is to fight.” Going to have to read this book. Suspect the principles also apply to any hierarchical organisation.

Great editorial from the lancet Global Health : "Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“The more proximate you are to people’s lived realities, and the more embedded you are, the less distanced by class you are, the more you see. The higher you go…the higher your propensity to not be very useful.” @seyeabimbola.bsky.social www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...

🎙️In 'Revisiting resilience in health systems research' podcast, Sophie Witter, @sushilbaral.bsky.social, @seyeabimbola.bsky.social & @kimozano.bsky.social talk resilience What are the concepts? Who is expected to be resilient? How are communities involved? www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/re...

On further reflection, handing operation of our Universities over to a professional administrative class with no personal investment in the educational mission of the university or the creation and maintenance of knowledge might have been somewhat in error.

Every single chance I get I teach the history of Haiti. Because it absolutely did teach the world not just about freedom but also the violent repercussions often inflicted on those who seek freedom and justice.

Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations - The Lancet Global Health @lancetgh.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"UN refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic and politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee" this keeps getting worse www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

A short while ago, Dr Janani Shanthosh and I had an engaging conversation about The Foreign Gaze, which she's now beautifully captured in text and audio. It's the first in her series of interviews titled On Theory. Please read, listen, and follow the series. Here goes ontheory.com/interviews/s...

“The field you’re entering... was designed, deliberately, for you to have as little impact as possible on equity & justice... It’s designed to keep you busy doing nonsense. Your job is to see through that & do your very best to resist.” globalhealthotherwise.com/why-global-h...

Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Thanks to Maebh Ní Fhallúin for this powerful reflection on ethics and justice on S4 of the #GlobalHealthMatters podcast. Share your ideas for S5 via our listener survey 👉 https://tinyurl.com/GHM-Listener-Survey

🙌 @maebhnif.bsky.social (& @seyeabimbola.bsky.social)! 💯

Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations - The Lancet Global Health @lancetgh.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Our top 3 episodes of S4 on #GlobalHealthMatters podcast: 1️⃣ Malaria: Francine Ntoumi & Corine Karema 👉 https://tinyurl.com/GHM-E39 2️⃣ Power & responsibility: @seyeabimbola.bsky.social  & Hani Kim – 👉 http://tinyurl.com/GHM-E44  3️⃣ Dialogues: Peter Hotez – 👉 https://tinyurl.com/peter-hotez