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Since @GlobalHealthBMJ doesn't want the world to hear about Global Health's silence during genocide, we will bring it directly to the people. We do not deserve to be called "Global Health" in the face of genocide. A short thread below 🧵
Daniel Krugman
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Daniel Krugman
@d_krugman
Joined June 2020
- Over a year in the making, my first solo author publication has finally dropped. Could not be more excited to share this thanks to @paimadhu and all the editors at @PLOSGPH Currently on some much needed vacation so details have to wait, but more on this work coming soonNEW Review article by @d_krugman: Global health and the elite capture of decolonization: On reformism and the possibilities of alternate paths
- If the field that calls itself "Global Health" is actually interested in global health, we should be organizing institutional and personal boycotts of USAID grant money and making it clear to our colleagues working there that the only ethical position is to resign in solidarity“I cannot do my job in an environment in which specific people cannot be acknowledged as fully human, or where gender and human rights principles apply to some, but not to others, depending on their race,” Smith wrote in his letter to Samantha Power theguardian.com/us-news/articl…
- There is perhaps no better example of the facade of liberal academic "decolonization" then a top medical journal publishing a front-page opinion condemning both sides of a genocide while reminding us that "European nations were once colonies themselves" today. I have no words🌐💥 For the 1st time since 1840, Decolonisation takes over the BMJ print issue 💥🌐
- Some thoughts, clarifications, and context on my new article with @PLOSGPH. The first piece in a series on what global health is and what it means to change it, I trace how Global Health is "capturing" and depoliticizing the idea of decolonization 1/
- Thrilled to finally share this new essay on the semantics of "global health" and its history in @CPHjournal and support their mission of independent, open-access public health publishing against the for-profit scientific machine. Check it out below! journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph…
- Although everyone is dunking on this latest propaganda from L***a, the painful truth is that this logic has underlined my entire program at JHSPH. There is a whole generation of public health being taught action is a cost-benefit analysis between health and economic "feasibility"
- Well here we are folks, the death of decolonizing global health. We've reached the point where the term has become so depoliticized that elite institutions are publically pandering individualist checklists to reform while referring to colonization in the past tenseGlobal health started with colonialism—and it shows. Here are four ways to flip the script on the “what’s yours is mine” approach to health. In our magazine, @jsilberner explores this issue and notes how to access @COHRED's self-assessment guide ➡️ magazine.jhsph.edu/2022/4-ways-de… (1/5)
- Replying to @d_krugmanReally, though, this rejection dutifully illuminates exactly what we talk about in this paper: Global Health's trenchant commitment to the status quo, careerism, and preserving its place in the international order to despite radical rhetoric. 5/
- Replying to @d_krugmanAs anti-genocide protest is being suppressed across the West, I, @marina_schor, @JimbleJay, and others were informed by @bmj_latest today that this article will not be published after almost six months of waiting for a decision 1/
- Replying to @d_krugmanThe wonderful team for this project includes @marina_schor @JimbleJay @BeautyDhlamini @GabiCiprianoF and @_ghiwa. We are all junior scholars and appreciate your support
- Replying to @d_krugmanIn all, despite @bmj_latest's commitment to "decolonizing" the field, this neither seems include critique of present complicities in colonial project nor real solidarity with people bearing the brunt of contemporary systems Global Health is structurally a part of 6/
- I know the term “elite capture” evokes the image of rich dudes sitting around a table plotting how to steal radical ideas, but we also need to think about it as well-intentioned but unread people using a word incorrectly over and over again until it’s rendered meaningless
- Replying to @d_krugmanWritten in NOVEMBER, we reached out for an update yesterday. Within 24 hours publication was denied. This short commentary has gone through multiple revisions with different reviewers. We understand it was approved by @seyeabimbola before his departure as well. 2/
