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...

"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: