Day 2 of Reimagining Global Health: we kick off with brilliant @seyeabimbola.bsky.social he is speaking on Knowledge and Power in Global Health - both of which are deeply connected. @madhupai.bsky.social @mcgillghp.bsky.social

Essay: Unawareness, or What We Do Not (Want to) Know An open access chapter in the book “Epidemiological Obfuscation” It asks the question: “Why do researchers do empirical social research that they have reason to know not to do?” Please download and read it: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

"researchers should systematically work through their (un)awareness of context and complexity and of time and place and should openly declare how they did so for each research project before (as part of its justification), during, and after the project."

A new episode of the @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social drops this week. For now, give a listen to our latest conversation with Lioba Hirsch talking about her new book, #Antiblackness and #GlobalHealth from @plutopress.bsky.social. @dadakim.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social

New 📰 in @lancetgh.bsky.social ✨ Structural inequities remain deeply embedded in global health governance and knowledge production We examine how diversity is measured in global health when demographic data are unavailable, & their ethical implications. More ⤵️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

In the latest @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social episode, I sit down with Dr. Lioba Hirsch, and we talk about her new book from @plutopress.bsky.social, #Antiblackness and #GlobalHealth podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... @madhupai.bsky.social @ethnography911.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social

A chance encounter on my first visit to Japan in December 2017 is the backdrop to my essay in a book by the Swedish government's Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA). The book itself is entirely in Swedish eba.se/wp-content/u... But here's my essay in the original English eba.se/wp-content/u...

Do standardised metrics flatten urban realities? Read this new article, written by @grlurton.bsky.social, our Chief Data Officer: gh.bmj.com/content/11/3..., and co-authors @jilmolenaar.bsky.social @lenkabenova.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @onykepe.bsky.social @pete-m-m.bsky.social.

In this short essay in BMJ Global Health, we draw attention to how standardised “global”measurement approaches obscure diversity, marginalise locally relevant insights needed for effective interventions, and create fragile measurement monocultures. gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...

Just as agricultural monocultures replace diverse ecosystems with a single crop variety, measurement monocultures replace diverse knowledge systems with standardised analyses and narrow citation networks gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...

Essay: Unawareness, or What We Do Not (Want to) Know An open access chapter in the book “Epidemiological Obfuscation” It asks the question: “Why do researchers do empirical social research that they have reason to know not to do?” Please download and read it: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

In this short essay in BMJ Global Health, we draw attention to how standardised “global”measurement approaches obscure diversity, marginalise locally relevant insights needed for effective interventions, and create fragile measurement monocultures. gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...

This is an excellent read and what a dream team of authors! "It is important to distinguish between 'making global data'-collating sources from across the globe-and 'making data global'-computing global metrics through modelling[...] disproportionate focus on the latter marginalises alternatives"

Routine health data give us a valuable but partial picture of quality of maternal and neonatal care. Our new paper in Health Policy and Planning asks: partial for whom - and why? 📄 @srhgroup-itm.bsky.social @itmantwerp.bsky.social @lenkabenova.bsky.social

𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬? 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞: gh.bmj.com/content/11/3... Co-authored with @jilmolenaar.bsky.social, @lenkabenova.bsky.social , @seyeabimbola.bsky.social , @onykepe.bsky.social & @grlurton.bsky.social illustration by Namrata Narendra.

Global health research must respect the dignity of marginalised communities by recognising them as knowers, not just subjects. Embrace transparency, non-extraction, democratisation, and transformation across all research stages for equity. More at: tinyurl.com/48kxevdc #GlobalHealth #ResearchEthics

Read the latest in our #ottawa40 series at @healthpromint.bsky.social A huge thank you to @seyeabimbola.bsky.social for this brilliant editorial! academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... You can listen to my podcast interview with Seye here: open.spotify.com/episode/2AbP...

A brilliant conversation. Reflections on poverty, power and attention that could really help steer all of public health in a better direction. #ottawa40

The evidence of things not seen I wrote a short essay in @healthpromint.bsky.social to mark @ottawacharter40.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... Watch my chat with editor @docsamantha.bsky.social on YouTube youtu.be/79i7TgalSPw?... Or listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/2AbP...

La traduction française de est désormais disponible! « Le regard étranger : Réflexions sur la santé mondiale ». Vous pouvez la télécharger gratuitement ou commander un exemplaire papier ici : www.editions.ird.fr/produit/731/... N’hésitez pas à en parler à vos amis, collègues et partenaires.

“The self-evident truths of public health remind us… of the basics; that ill health and inequity in health, are, via poverty, deprivation, or low-income, structurally determined, and that this is where our efforts must aim, ultimately”

The evidence of things not seen I wrote a short essay in @healthpromint.bsky.social to mark @ottawacharter40.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... Watch my chat with editor @docsamantha.bsky.social on YouTube youtu.be/79i7TgalSPw?... Or listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/2AbP...

🔔 NEW   The evidence of things not seen   ✍️ Seye Abimbola   OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag016

The French translation of The Foreign Gaze is now out! It is titled “Le regard étranger: Réflexions sur la santé mondiale” You can download it for free or order a print copy here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/731/... Please spread the word to your French-speaking friends, colleagues, and partners.

A case of burying the lede. Midway through, there's a quote: "people estimated that around a quarter of the national budget goes on overseas aid — far higher than the real figure of 0.3% of gross national income." Why do people in the UK feel that way? That's the question. Everything else follows.

Présentation cet apres-midi 🎉 www.ceped.org/fr/Actualite...

💡Ami.e.s francophones, je vous conseille vivement ce livre 📕 de @seyeabimbola.bsky.social qui fait avancer le discours sur les fondements et le devenir de la santé mondiale !

A case of burying the lede. Midway through, there's a quote: "people estimated that around a quarter of the national budget goes on overseas aid — far higher than the real figure of 0.3% of gross national income." Why do people in the UK feel that way? That's the question. Everything else follows.

La traduction en français du livre de @seyeabimbola.bsky.social vient de sortir... en accès libre www.editions.ird.fr/produit/731/... @ehess.fr @lab-iris.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @kristofdecoster.bsky.social @chrabier.cpesr.fr @histoires-crepues.bsky.social @mondediplomatique.bsky.social

La traduction française de est désormais disponible! « Le regard étranger : Réflexions sur la santé mondiale ». Vous pouvez la télécharger gratuitement ou commander un exemplaire papier ici : www.editions.ird.fr/produit/731/... N’hésitez pas à en parler à vos amis, collègues et partenaires.

The French translation of The Foreign Gaze is now out! It is titled “Le regard étranger: Réflexions sur la santé mondiale” You can download it for free or order a print copy here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/731/... Please spread the word to your French-speaking friends, colleagues, and partners.

@seyeabimbola.bsky.social It was nice to see and hear you again yesterday. 🙏

Bientôt en ligne @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social

Ryan Coogler’s blues-steeped vampire epic “Sinners” led all films with 16 nominations for the 98th Academy Awards, setting a record for the most in Oscar history.

What the US and our allies are experiencing now is what we've exported to the world for more than a century. It's the imperial boomerang. When it's done to us, we're outraged and think it's unacceptable, but when it's done to others, that's just how things are and you need to stop being an idealist.

To much of the Global South, Trump is acting like a typical US president. To the Global North, he's a mad king, an aberrant, Hitler-like figure hellbent on global domination. It's very telling and should be prompting everyone in the imperial core to reconsider their perspective and values.

4 problems revealed in gender equality programs: excluding knowledge from Global South, assuming violence is intrinsic characteristic of GS culture, depoliticising poverty by labelling work as inherently liberating, universalizing human rights discourses emphasising neoliberal ideas of personhood

More on that Hep B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau: Via @mark-ungrin.bsky.social #episky www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I read articles like this one and first I cringe because it's the same ideas retold by the same people, then I laugh because the things they write are so fucking naive, and then I cry because I just see history repeating itself. Has it ever been thus? Yes. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I hope someone is doing an epistemic community analysis of the current global health reimagining exercise. It's insane how the same people (Helen Clarke, Peter Piot etc) and their friends try to imprint their views 'top down' on everybody else.

Children are still starving in #Gaza — we mustn’t let the farcical “ceasefire” blind us to the ongoing genocide.

How to measure “success” in implementation science? Check out this clear breakdown of potential metrics, of which evaluation by RCT + health impact are just two 🤓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I made a playlist to celebrate. It’s quite percussive; and titled “Professor”. Please give it a listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/4Bg...

Professor I made a playlist to celebrate. Please give it a listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/4Bg...

As 2025 ends, I had a chance to discuss global health inequities with @josephharrisbu.bsky.social in this episode of Global Health Politics globalhealthpoliticspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2364394/epis...

For your weekend reading list: a new Review in PLOS Global Public Health by Ogochukwu Udenigwe, Judi Aubel and @seyeabimbola.bsky.social : A decolonial feminist perspective on gender equality programming in the Global South journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

“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...