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Examining African contributions to global health: Reflections on knowledge circulation and innovation.
- Source :
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Global Public Health . Jan2023, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p1-16. 16p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This article unites different disciplinary debates on 'southern innovation', 'theory from the South', and 'decolonisation of knowledge' in order to discuss existing understandings around the role of Africa in the production of health-related knowledge, public health policy, and medical innovation. Arguing that high-income countries have much to learn from the global South when it comes to health-related knowledge and practices, we propose an interdisciplinary research approach to uncovering and examining African contributions to global health, drawing on an ongoing collaborative project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. We present four empirical case studies concerning drug development, healthcare systems, and urban planning to critically enquire into both historical and contemporary transcontinental knowledge circulation and learning potentials, as much as cases of forgetting and silencing. On this basis, we argue that 'learning from the South' must mean more than transplanting quick and cheap technological fixes to serve societies in the global North, but rather recognising the vast contributions that Africans have made to global epistemologies, without losing sight of the asymmetries inherent in South–North knowledge exchanges. Lessons learned might apply to fields other than those discussed here and go far beyond 'reverse innovation'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *KNOWLEDGE management
*HEALTH policy
*INSTITUTIONAL cooperation
*INTERDISCIPLINARY research
*INTERNATIONAL relations
*PUBLIC health administration
*HISTORICAL research
*AGRICULTURE
*WORLD health
*PUBLIC health
*MEDICAL care
*THEORY of knowledge
*HEALTH literacy
*URBAN health
*DRUG development
*FINANCIAL management
*DIFFUSION of innovations
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17441692
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Global Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174160509
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2022.2118343