Addressing power asymmetries in global health: Imperatives in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

PLoS Med. 2021 Apr 22;18(4):e1003604. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003604. eCollection 2021 Apr.

¹ School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
² Women in Global Health, New Delhi, India.
³ Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
⁴ PH Lab & Planetary and Global Health Program, St. Luke's Medical Center College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial, Manila, Philippines.
⁵ Operation Smile, Accra, Ghana.
⁶ University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁷ The World Bank, Kenya Country Office, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁸ University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁹ KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹⁰ Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania.
¹¹ Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
¹² School of Population and Global Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Abstract

Seye Abimbola and co-authors argue for a transformation in global health research and practice in the post-COVID-19 world.

The authors received no specific funding for this work.