01954nas a2200205   4500000000100000008004100001260001600042653002100058653001900079653001800098100001300116700001300129700001500142245013800157856007500295300001600370490000700386520134100393022001401734       2023                            d  bElsevier BV10aGeneral Medicine10adecolonization10aGlobal health1 aRamani S1 aWhyle EB1 aKagwanja N00aWhat research evidence can support the decolonisation of global health? Making space for deeper scholarship in global health journals  uhttps://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2214-109X%2823%2900299-1  ae1464-e14680 v113 a<p>Much of the current global health publishing landscape is restricted in its epistemological diversity, relying heavily on a biomedical lens to examine and report on global health issues. In this Viewpoint, we argue that the space within global health journals needs to be expanded to include diverse forms of research scholarship, thereby shifting the kinds of stories that get told in these spaces. We particularly call for the inclusion of deeper research that values the tacit, experiential knowledge possessed by actors (eg, communities, health-care workers, policy makers, activists, and researchers) in low-income and middle-income countries, and legitimises the perspectives of local doers and thinkers; research that pays careful attention to context, and does not treat local realities as mere background occurrences; and research that draws on alternative, counter-dominant epistemologies, that allow for the crucial examination of power imbalances, and that challenge hegemonic discourses in global health. To decolonise academic work in the global health field, we should look beyond diversity in research authorship. We need to tackle other unconscious biases such as presumptions about the superiority of particular forms of evidence over others, and thereby expand the plurality of perspectives in global health.</p>
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