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Global Health Matters podcast 🎙️ @ghm-podcast.bsky.social · 20h

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

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

No I am not a student of evolutionary theory. In fact, evolutionary theory studies me.

(Wondering now if this quip works for every academic discipline.)

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 2d

The gaze reversed: global health through local eyes

@thirushanaidu.bsky.social reviews @seyeabimbola.bsky.social’s book in @thelancet.com

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The gaze reversed: global health through local eyes

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 that hold attention in g...

www.thelancet.com

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Gregory Lee 利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 5d

#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...

The gaze reversed: global health through local eyes

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 that hold attention in g...

www.thelancet.com

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 4d

Criticism of biased media coverage of Gaza is often discarded as baseless..

so we set out to study the coverage of Palestinian and Israeli victims by German press systematically!

The resulting study 'Hierarchies in Death' was just published #OA by Peacebuilding www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.tandfonline.com

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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 23d

In a world in which politically palatable downstream thinking reigns, teaching upstream determination of health inequity can be difficult.

But it’s what "global health” shld be about.

In this paper led by Neha Faruqui we share lessons from our experience & observations!

gh.bmj.com/content/10/9...

First page of an article titled “The upstream-downstream tension in the global health classroom”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20d

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)

www.nytimes.com

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Maebh Ní Fhallúin @maebhnif.bsky.social · 23d

Important paper explicitly addressing the big conundrum

"the global health job market is fundamentally constructed by the same structural forces that prioritise downstream over upstream solutions."

Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 23d

In a world in which politically palatable downstream thinking reigns, teaching upstream determination of health inequity can be difficult.

But it’s what "global health” shld be about.

In this paper led by Neha Faruqui we share lessons from our experience & observations!

gh.bmj.com/content/10/9...

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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 23d

In a world in which politically palatable downstream thinking reigns, teaching upstream determination of health inequity can be difficult.

But it’s what "global health” shld be about.

In this paper led by Neha Faruqui we share lessons from our experience & observations!

gh.bmj.com/content/10/9...

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Sadžida Traynor-Herenda | Melem za Dušu Psychologist @soulsoothing.bsky.social · Dec 22

I simply cannot get enough of this book and the playlist is amazing. Reading this book is soothing, thought provoking, empowering. I also feel the righteous anger. Personally I think it applies way beyond Global Health. Reading it for the 4th or 5th time.

Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · Nov 18

I'm happy to announce that my book, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health", is now out!

You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...

The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...

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Francis Markham @francismarkham.bsky.social · Sep 7

Australian universities are in a governance crisis. VC pay blowouts, scandals, mission drift — these aren’t random, they’re structural.

This new working paper with @marijataflaga.bsky.social & Keith Dowding digs into why the system is broken, and how to fix it.

doi.org/10.25911/MWW...

A thread:

Neither corporate nor government: Why university governance needs to be different, and better
Marija Taflaga, Francis Markham and Keith Dowding.

Preprint, 29 August 2025. https://doi.org/10.25911/MWW4-9781

Abstract
Australian universities face a governance crisis rooted in failures of accountability. Unlike parliaments and corporate boards, university councils lack effective mechanisms for principals to discipline agents. In parliaments, voters can replace elected representatives; in corporations, shareholders can vote out directors. Both systems close the delegation–accountability loop, ensuring alignment between principals and outcomes. University councils, however, are self-perpetuating bodies dominated by external appointees, and in recent decades they are typically from corporate backgrounds. As neither producers nor consumers of universities’ core product—knowledge creation and dissemination—they have minimal intrinsic stake in academic outcomes leaving councils detached from the university’s core mission. This misalignment fosters mission drift, weakens oversight, and contributes to repeated scandals. Because councils largely appoint their own successors, they remain insulated from meaningful scrutiny, unlike boards or parliaments where underperformance is sanctioned externally. Restoring accountability requires giving academic staff and students a renewed oversight role, alongside clear safeguards for the public interest. Because academics and students are both producers and consumers of knowledge, they have a direct and enduring stake in its quality. We recommend two mechanisms to do this are:
1. Academic Senates empowered to appoint and review council members, ensuring councils reflect the university’s purpose.
2. Robust Committee Systems that embed staff and student voices in decision-making, reduce information asymmetries, and align incentives with academic purposes.

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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · Nov 18

I'm happy to announce that my book, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health", is now out!

You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...

The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...

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karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 27d

Our work on the mental health of health workers in Gaza is now out in @plosglobalpublichealth.org. The findings are not surprising - health workers were being terrorized from the beginning of the genocide (data from December 2023- Jan 2024 peer review is slow).
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Displacement, personal loss, and psychological strain among physicians and nurses working in Gaza, 2023–2024

On January 26th 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) recognized plausible grounds for genocide being committed in Gaza by Israel. A hallmark of the violence has been unprecedented attacks on...

journals.plos.org

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · Sep 8

Spike Lee’s Katrina doco, Come Hell and High Water, on Netflix is really good. Neglect after neglect after neglect after strategic neglect.

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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · Jul 21

"We prefer to die by airstrike. But not to watch our families die slowly from hunger."

The conclusion to The Foreign Gaze started and ended in Gaza; with hunger, malnutrition, and starvation on my mind; with famine on my mind.

It's very painful to watch my fears of Israel and its allies fulfilled.

The first page of the Conclusion chapter of the book "The Foreign Gaze" which opens with a quote from Palestinian journalist writing from Gaza in April 2024, about hunger, malnutrition, and starvation.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Nov 2

The Foreign Gaze, an Important global health book is coming soon!

www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...

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Heini Väisänen @heinivaisanen.bsky.social · Sep 2

This book is excellent and comes with a playlist!

Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · Nov 18

I'm happy to announce that my book, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health", is now out!

You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...

The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...

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ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social · Aug 30

🎙️ What are the key concepts around health systems resilience?
Who is expected to be resilient?
How are communities involved?
Find out in our podcast episode with Sophie Witter, @sushilbaral.bsky.social & @seyeabimbola.bsky.social
🔊Listen here...
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/re...

The title of the podcast - revisiting resilience in health systems research - plus a photo of a female patient and female doctor in a consulting room in Afghanistan

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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · Aug 27

It was nice to see @lancetgh.bsky.social editors wrote an editorial in the issue of the journal featuring our article.

They committed to being "mindful of these expectations in all work that we evaluate".

Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · Aug 27

It was nice to see @lancetgh.bsky.social editors wrote an editorial in the issue of the journal featuring our article.

They committed to being "mindful of these expectations in all work that we evaluate".

Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · Aug 20

Please read our new @lancetgh.bsky.social paper "Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We analysed complaints on knowledge practices in global health to identify expectations that affirm the dignity of marginalised knowers.

First page of article titled Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations"

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Aug 19

Towards inclusive authorship: Analyzing author representation in @plosglobalpublichealth.org front matter content

Esme Longley & @shashikalb.bsky.social

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Towards inclusive authorship: Analyzing author representation in PLOS Global Public Health front matter content

Underrepresentation and lack of inclusion of Global South researchers have been key shortcomings in global health publications. This has contributed to epistemic injustice in global health and impacte...

journals.plos.org

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · Aug 20

ATTN: Robert Wood Johnson has money to support “canceled” research on racial-indigenous health equity

www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

Rapid Response: Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity Research

The purpose of this call for proposals is to meet the current moment by supporting timely, actionable health equity research that has been interrupted by shifts in federal funding.

www.rwjf.org

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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · Aug 20

Please read our new @lancetgh.bsky.social paper "Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We analysed complaints on knowledge practices in global health to identify expectations that affirm the dignity of marginalised knowers.

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Vikash R Keshri, MD, PhD @docvrk.bsky.social · Aug 12

Professional update:
Joined the Jindal school of public health & human development (JSPH)
@JindalGlobalUNI
as Associate Professor.

Look forward to interdisciplinary #publichealth & #humandevelopment teaching & research
& Teach in the first #GlobalHealth course from India.

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