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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

1 year

Please read my new essay in @TheLancet — When dignity meets evidence: There's a kind of knowledge practice we may call 'dignity-based practice'. It respects the dignity of marginalised knowers. It's been slow to take off, unlike 'evidence-based practice'.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

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4 years

It feels ill-timed to share good news. But maybe that's reason to share this: I will hold the 2020-2022 "Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity" @UtrechtUni On the intersections of #healthsystems governance & the ethics of #globalhealth practice

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 months

Some personal news: I've decided to step down as EiC of BMJ Global Health. Next week marks 8 years since its first issue, published 8 months after I was appointed its EiC. Thank you for all your support over the years. Here's a playlist to mark my exit:

BMJ Global Health Exit

BMJ Global Health Exit · Playlist · 12 songs · 86 likes

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

4 years

New editorial in @GlobalHealthBMJ by Desmond T Jumbam - "How (not) to write about global health". Inspired by the brilliant, resonant piece, "How to write about Africa" by Binyavanga Wainaina. Enjoy.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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Honored—+ surprised + it's a bit odd—to be on @voxdotcom ’s 2023 Future Perfect 50 list. But I’m on the list with scientists, thinkers, scholars, writers, and activists whose work I admire— @OlufemiOTaiwo @Maisa_Rojas @ashley_muteti @LantPritchett + more!

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

1 year

Please read my new essay in @TheLancet — When dignity meets evidence: There's a kind of knowledge practice we may call 'dignity-based practice'. It respects the dignity of marginalised knowers. It's been slow to take off, unlike 'evidence-based practice'.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 months

The Lancet and colonialism: past, present, and future Please read our brief look @TheLancet 's past, what it says about its present, & might about its future. "Influence unfairly accumulated through colonialism must be redirected to egalitarian purposes."

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 years

Two new @GlobalHealthBMJ editorials — inviting us to be more thoughtful about the labels we place on countries/people: 1. The use, misuse & overuse of the ‘LMIC’ category 2. How we classify countries & people — and why it matters

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

1 year

I wrote a short response to a timely article in @JME_BMJ on epistemic justice in bioethics—"Where is knowledge from the global South?" My response, inspired by the words of Toni Morrison, is titled—"Knowledge from the global South is in the global South"

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

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2 years

I wonder if the day will come when researchers will no longer be comfortable conducting studies/reviews to cover all 'LMICs'. As it is not an organic category, I'm often left wondering what all 'LMICs' have in common to warrant such studies/reviews. Whose research question?

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

4 years

Please read our new @GlobalHealthBMJ editorial, led by @julienabyonga On how "Article processing charges are stalling the progress of African researchers" /we offer ideas for urgent reforms by governments, donors, and the scientific publishing industry/

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

6 months

“If you're too loyal to your own suffering, you forget that others suffer, too.” ― Teju Cole, Open City

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

It's 5yrs since @GlobalHealthBMJ was launched! Here's the first editorial I wrote — "The information problem in global health" If I was writing the editorial today, here's what I'd write — "The uses of knowledge in global health"

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 years

It’s a sad day. Owo is my ‘hometown’ - my sister just told me of many people we grew up with/knowing who were killed, injured, or lost relatives in today’s attack; & my brother had to take his family to a safe place for cover. But our gov’ts won’t do anything to protect people.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

1 year

Yet another unfortunate RCT. Yet another sad reminder that we still don’t know how to think about the ethics of knowledge production. We don’t, and it is unfortunate. But that’s how power works. It can shield you from responsibility.

Toman Barsbai

@TomanBarsbai

1 year

1/ On their first day of work abroad, hundreds of Filipino domestic workers presented their new employer in Saudi Arabia and Hong Honk with a small pack of dried mango and a photo of their family. Guess what happened next. A🧵on our new working paper:

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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Please read this new article in @GlobalHealthBMJ Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries /we challenge LMIC actors to protect their citizens from unethical international research/

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

What if every 'academic global health' project is required to publish a practice paper that lays out how researchers engaged with people they sought to serve? "Community engagement efforts on equitable access to care with a racialised community in Canada"

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

Two new reviews in @GlobalHealthBMJ that invite us to think more clearly about what we mean when we say 'global health' and 'low-resource settings': On 'global health' [ @melsalm et al] On 'low-resource settings' [ @m_heine01 et al]

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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Watch what happens as @gatesfoundation stops paying article publishing fees, shifts to peer reviewed preprints, & advocates for “low-cost digital publishing platforms”. I predicted this 5 years ago! Advancing Equity and Innovation in Research Publishing

Advancing Equity and Innovation in Research Publishing: Time for a New Era in the Open Access...

Today marks a significant milestone as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) announces a new Open Access policy, representing a departure from traditional practices. This policy will cease...

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

I’ve found, increasingly, that one of the most important tasks of teaching global health in the Global North is helping students (who were raised to & have learnt to imagine themselves into the centre of the world) to dislodge themselves to the periphery & manage that transition.

Ngozi

@udnore

3 years

Great thread and important observations of #globalhealth theatre by @klts0 . I appreciate these observations as it helps me re-examine my approach to teaching global health and health systems…

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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“There’s something scary about the degree of power that Western academics can exercise over poor people... if a foreign researcher wants to carry out an unethical RCT in a place like Kenya, they can.” But the real problem is there aren’t sufficient ethical safeguards in place.

Francisco Pérez

@platanomics

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That RCT where they disconnected people's water in Nairobi was even more unethical than I understood when the original scandal broke

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

4 years

In the last 6 weeks, I've encountered 2 separate instances of researchers declining to be named as co-author on their own paper. Both instances from the same country. The researchers feared for their life. Their findings had put them at odds with their government. #authorship

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 years

In this @nature editorial, there’s lots of text stating that discriminatory material they’d published were ‘hurtful’, ‘damaging’, ‘offensive’, ‘injurious’ & ‘destructive’ Only once did they say ‘scientifically inaccurate’ Not once did they say ‘factually wrong’ or ‘falsehood’ .

Monica H Green, PhD #VaxTheWorld

@monicaMedHist

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. @nature announcing a special issue on the journal's role in perpetuating racism in science, coming up next month:

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

Two new @GlobalHealthBMJ papers showing why we should recognise the power inherent in the positions from which we analyse power! 1. A guide to power analysis in health systems 2. 'You want to deal with power while riding on power'

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

5 years

Please read my new editorial in @GlobalHealthBMJ "The foreign gaze: authorship in academic global health" It's the first in a series of 5 papers on equity, diversity and inclusiveness of editorial boards and of authorship in academic #globalhealth 1/5

The foreign gaze: authorship in academic global health

> I was really interested in black readership. For me the parallel is black music, which is as splendid and complicated and wonderful as it is because its audience was within; its primary audience....

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 years

Please read our — written with @NaiduThirusha — new @TheLancet essay: "How medical education holds back health equity" We analyse #MedEd as a colonial institution — inspired by Frantz Fanon and the early history of my alma mater, @OAUniversity #medschool

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

Please read our (written with @HimaniBhakuni_ ) new article in @LancetGH "Epistemic injustice in academic global health" /when @LancetGH asked "What is wrong with academic global health?", we answered: credibility deficit + interpretive marginalisation/ .

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

4 years

Thread, with some reflections as editor of an academic journal in the time of COVID-19. There are so many COVID-19 submissions and pitches it's almost impossible to keep up and give each its due consideration: blog posts commentaries, editorials, research papers, et cetera 1/5

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

4 years

New paper in @GlobalHealthBMJ - Bridging Western and Indigenous knowledge: lessons from Mexico /Indigenous communities have complex bodies of knowledge, but Western health services approach them as vulnerable people in need of external solutions./

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

4 years

Please read my new editorial/essay in @GlobalHealthBMJ titled "Health system governance: a triangle of rules" /…makes the case for detailed, nuanced, bottom-up, rules-based analysis of how health systems are governed as complex and adaptive systems/

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

Please read my new editorial in @GlobalHealthBMJ — "The uses of knowledge in global health" /"Lack of representativeness of authorship in global health must be understood in terms of lack of representativeness of the knowledge that in the literature."/

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@seyeabimbola

3 years

"Equitable authorship in international research partnerships" In this consensus statement, we call on academic journals (& funders/employers) to ensure that an author reflexivity statement is submitted along with any manuscript from HIC-LMIC partnerships.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

1 year

When global health scholars are afraid that their criticism of a journal editor can be “career-ending” Or When @WHO ’s Director of Communications has to apologise for mildly challenging a journal editor Then it is worth reflecting on how editorial power can be more accountable.

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Does #globalhealth really need Richard Horton?

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 years

Please read our — written with @NaiduThirusha — new @TheLancet essay: "How medical education holds back health equity" We analyse #MedEd as a colonial institution — inspired by Frantz Fanon and the early history of my alma mater, @OAUniversity #medschool

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

1 year

Call for applications: One PhD scholarship funded by @arc_gov_au & @Sydney_Uni to study with me On: How to institutionalise dignity-based knowledge practices in global health: PS: selected int'l PhD(c) may be eligible for @Sydney_Uni tuition scholarship

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

1 year

Please read our new @LancetGH paper — led by @e_charani — titled: The use of imagery in global health: an analysis of infectious disease documents We developed a framework to guide more equitable, representative, dignity-oriented, and ethical practice.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

If you know any journal editor please bring this @Nature Correspondence to their attention: Please see here for the list of recommendations: Please see here for how to use authorship criteria for inclusion:

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

Please read our editorial—written with @NASAdoc —on using the ICMJE authorship criteria for inclusion It accompanies an important 'Consensus statement on measures to promote equitable authorship in LMIC-HIC research partnerships'

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 years

"Who funded the research behind the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine?" New in @GlobalHealthBMJ by @rhiannon_osborn et al: /the scale of high-risk public funding underlying the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine compels advocacy for global equitable access/

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

4 years

Again, we have to ask ourselves: 1. what's the purpose of a paper like this? Just HIC people talking to other HIC people? 2. is the global, elevated status of journals like @NEJM earned, or just colonial? 3. how do we respond to such "global" journals - reform, or create ours?

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

@paimadhu

4 years

Speaking of #decolonizing global health, here is an excellent case study of what is wrong & needs to change. Review on #Ebola @NEJM 3 authors, 0 from Africa (which has endured every single Ebola outbreak!)

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

Little pleasures in the life of a journal editor on Twitter: A new paper is published. Someone gets excited to see it, then Tweets it, and copies a colleague who might be excited to see it too, not knowing that said colleague was indeed one of the peer reviewers of the paper.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

Education is where/when many norms are set for & by academics. So to transform GH is to transform GH education. Please read this new @GlobalHealthBMJ practice paper: "Curriculum codesign & codelivery by people with direct expertise and lived experience" .

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

4 years

New all African authored paper in @GlobalHealthBMJ - "42 yrs of responding to #Ebola outbreaks in Africa: a review" Note: the majority of such all African authored papers - mostly rightly - do not make it to outlets like @GlobalHealthBMJ #theforeigngaze

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

8 months

We're collating ethics guidelines, codes, frameworks, & tools crafted to govern health research & other knowledge practices globally. + those crafted by/for marginalised groups! Please share links/docs in response to this tweet, and/or by email to: dignity.project @sydney .edu.au

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

…and this won’t change until we acknowledge that 1. academic global health/development is of, for, & by the ‘North’ 2. bringing ‘Southern’ voices into a ‘Northern’ conversation is not progress 3. academic global health/development has to be reimagined as a ‘Southern’ space .

Grieve Chelwa

@gchelwa

3 years

.⁦ @Ronelle_B ⁩, myself and other colleagues have a new paper out in Applied Economics Letters! The paper is on the underrepresentation of developing country researchers in development research. Abstract below and url here: .

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

18 days

Listening to Steven Thrasher @thrasherxy at the Justice for Palestine encampment at #Northwestern He says, repeatedly, “our work is love” He relays many heartbreaking words of health workers and journalists in Gaza He highlights the 143 Palestinian journalists killed so far

Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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Great 🧵 on the current situation at #Northwestern 👇

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 years

Please read this new @GlobalHealthBMJ paper by @SalmaMHAbdalla et al on public understanding of the determinants of health across 8 countries: ...and the accompanying editorial by @sridhartweet on how to make sense of the findings:

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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New paper in @GlobalHealthBMJ by @drdaninpoole et al: Damage to medical complexes in Gaza: a geospatial analysis "The proportion of damage to medical complexes was similar to all other buildings despite their status as protected civilian objects by IHL."

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

It is a delight to see this news break! Congratulations @CKyobutungi @paimadhu & @JuliaE_Robinson ! It is refreshing to have a new journal do new things — @PLOSGPH belongs in the @PLOS family, but is also a sibling to @GlobalHealthBMJ ! I can't wait to read, support, contribute!

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

@paimadhu

3 years

Excited to help launch a new global public health journal: @PLOSGPH ( @PLOS family, open access) Look forward to working with @CKyobutungi & @JuliaE_Robinson to drive diversity at all levels—editors, editorial boards, peer reviewers & authors

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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"Equitable authorship in international research partnerships" On what journals (+ funders/employers/researchers) can do to stop parachute research On how to use the ICMJE authorship criteria for inclusion in HIC-LMIC partnerships

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

this is a major problem in academic global health this idea that “single-site studies... don't have the appeal of ‘global’ estimates” it is an axis of supremacy that must be flipped on its head single-site studies are far more important than ‘global’ or multi-country studies!

Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, PhD

@BHedtGauthier

3 years

Both our team and IHME can produce estimates on abx resistance in rural Rwanda; one is based on data from rural Rwanda. The study was *incredibly* difficult to do and it will be difficlt to publish as single-site studies from Africa don't have the appeal of "global" estimates. 3/

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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"The South African Medical Journal published articles defending apartheid and suppressed articles that criticized apartheid policies." We must study the role medical/health journals play(ed) in upholding colonialism, apartheid, and similar regimes everywhere, past and present.

Valéry Ridde

@ValeryRidde

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1940s & 1950s: Health system reform is nearly achieved, but prevented by the introduction of apartheid @monnaisl

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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“Most histories trace the development of epidemiology to London in the mid-19th century when physician John Snow… But this label is not entirely accurate… doctors who served on slave ships [from the 18th century]… became the first epidemiologists.”

How Transatlantic Slave Trade Shaped Epidemiology Today

Slave ships and colonial plantations created environments that enabled doctors to study how diseases spread.

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Fyezah Jehan 👩🏻‍💻🇵🇰

@FyezahJehan

4 months

Visiting Snow’s legacy in Broadwick St., where modern epidemiology was birthed: In 1854, a deadly cholera outbreak terrorized #London . John Snow, through meticulous mapping and data analysis, traced the source to a single water pump on Broad Street. In defiance of conventional

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Thank you to our reviewers. 2020 was a very busy year in the life of @GlobalHealthBMJ — a sustained surge in submissions, some of which, because of Covid-19, we had to take through peer review at breakneck speed. I am really grateful for your support.

Thank you to our reviewers | BMJ Global Health

Browse the list of people who served as reviewers for BMJ Global Health during the past year.

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@seyeabimbola

6 months

“The mortality rates in Gaza are the highest of any previous conflict with Israel. For every death, 7 to 8 seriously injured people will need critical care & future services. 1000s will face mental health issues like PTSD, hindering post-conflict reconstruction & labour force.”

Yanna Lambrinidou, PhD

@DrishtiEthics

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Again, @GlobalHealthBMJ reminds us that academic publishing in times of crisis can serve as a moral North Star, directing us to acknowledge horrifying histories & align our work w the urgent need for accountability, stability, and fundamental human rights.

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@seyeabimbola

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Here is BMJ's announcement: Many thanks to assoc. editors—esp. @globalstopp & @ValeryRidde —for being so consistent since the beginning; and to the editorial board & peer reviewers. Many thanks to friends far & wide: I am more grateful than I can say.🙏🏿

Editorial announcement: Dr Seye Abimbola - BMJ Global Health blog

Dr Seye Abimbola has decided to step down from his role as Editor in Chief of BMJ Global Health after nearly 9 years and two terms in post. Under Dr Abimbola’s leadership, the title, which launched...

blogs.bmj.com

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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It's 10 years today since my mother, Sola Abimbola, died. And the pain, the sense of loss never goes away. She's who I've always wanted to be: fearless, generous, political, passionate, brilliant, combative, kind, committed, playful — like many personalities in one person.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

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I play this song when I'm very happy — when I see joy on the girls, writing is going well, a reviewer or student gets it, or I get funded, or a kind email. It reminds me that "my Mama told me there'd be days like this". My Mama would have been 66 today.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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I was afraid this would happen. I'm worried about the chilling effects this would have on freedom of speech and on efforts to promote equity and justice globally. I'm concerned for the next Editor in Chief of @eLife - or other editors/academics who want to speak truth to power.

Michael Eisen

@mbeisen

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I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of @eLife for retweeting a @TheOnion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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Please read this new @GlobalHealthBMJ editorial essay by Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction "Global health is dead; long live global health! Critiques of the field and its future" /on 4 books criticising global health institutions & practices from within/ .

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 years

3 responses to 'let's decolonise global health' 1. 'let's get going already' (plenty) 2. 'you're not going far enough' (growing) 3. 'you're going way too far' (rare) An example of no3 in @GlobalHealthBMJ by @hellowell_mark & @trishnayna : "Powerful ideas?"

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

4 years

In global health we now rightly focus on the (Western) colonial origins of inequities b/w nations, and what it means for our practice. But we must also focus on the often more consequential (internal) colonial origins of inequities w/i nations. #localgaze #decolonizeGlobalHealth

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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after their paper was rejected (before peer review) a well-known academic threatened they'd ask colleagues to avoid @GlobalHealthBMJ it's the kind of power I wish authors had over (esp. global health) journals, but it's also a certain kind of entitled academic who makes a threat

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@seyeabimbola

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Two papers published in @GlobalHealthBMJ to coincide with @WHO 's 75th anniversary: 1. On the pattern of voluntary funding to @WHO and its flexibility: 2. On the pattern emerging from World Health Assembly resolutions, 1948 -2022:

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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I've always felt uneasy about uncritical dismissal/mockery of "predatory" journals It allows us (who feed the centralising & exclusionary beast of academic publishing) ignore our role in their existence …no decolonising GH w/o decentralising & democratising knowledge platforms

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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Please see here my new editorial in @GlobalHealthBMJ "The foreign gaze: authorship in academic global health"

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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New practice paper in @GlobalHealthBMJ on #globalhealth training @harvardmed "Institutionalising global health: a call for ethical reflection" /we see substantial risk that current approaches to #globalhealth may never yield a structural tipping point/

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 years

Important @TheLancet article about recent reports on racism @LSTMnews & @LSHTM - by @Obasi_TropMed @BakareBarley & @DrMishalK Racism in two UK global health institutions /those who created inequitable systems cannot be tasked with leading on reforms/

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

4 years

It is one of my concerns that #decolonizeglobalhealth should not only be about relations between HICs and LMICs; that we should pay attention to "colonial' style extractive relations, often rooted in history, between privileged and not so privileged people within HICs and LMICs.

Sanjoy Bhattacharya

@JoyAgnost

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If anything, extra care needed in developing transparent ethical protocols & pathways to social protections in LMICs (especially amongst poorer & marginalised populations). @paimadhu @seyeabimbola @Real_Ironist @Nuffbioethics @dukedecolonize @DecolonizeGh

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

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It was a great privilege to serve as a commissioner on the @TheLancet #Nigeria Commission. The report, titled "Investing in health and the future of the nation", will be launched on 16 March. Don’t miss our launch event. Please register here:

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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the global health literature has a default preference for uniform/standardised methods, metrics, indicators, measures, around the world but the value of uniformity vs non-uniformity is not always self-evident — academics, please remember there can be huge costs to uniformity

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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Two new @GlobalHealthBMJ papers reflecting tensions in the decolonising #globalhealth movements: On the need for non-reformist decolonial thought; @MoniquaMC et al: On the need for reformist and pragmatic change; @DrSam_Oti et al:

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@seyeabimbola

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Of Churchill's many witticisms, this his insult to a political adversary haunts me most: "occasionally he stumbled over the truth but he always picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened." I hope same won't be said of the "global health elite" post-COVID-19. 5/5

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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What I imagined as I proofread this article: It's 2050 or 2075. There's an analysis of how major health and medical journals enabled various colonialisms from 2020 to 2030, including Israel's war on Gaza. It was very heartbreaking to suspect the results won't be much different.

Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 months

The Lancet and colonialism: past, present, and future Please read our brief look @TheLancet 's past, what it says about its present, & might about its future. "Influence unfairly accumulated through colonialism must be redirected to egalitarian purposes."

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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In May, @GlobalHealthBMJ published a critique of the @virchowprize for Global Health written by 3 scholars from the Global North. In July, 3 scholars from the Global South respond to that critique. 1 The response: 2 The critique:

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

4 years

Our new paper in @GlobalHealthBMJ led by @badejokikiolu Confronting power in low places: historical analysis of medical dominance and role-boundary negotiation between health professions in Nigeria /the swampy lowland of professional rivalry and power/

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 years

"The issue of whether to pay community health workers can no longer be framed as a policy choice about which reasonable minds can disagree. To solve this challenge, we must first recognise that whether is the wrong question, and focus together on how."

Community Health Impact Coalition

@join_chic

2 years

1). The problem of unpaid CHWs is widespread. The Lancet Commission on Financing PHC's report suggests that nearly 60% of CHWs in low-income and lower-middle-income countries received no salary. We can no longer feign ignorance (or innocence).

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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Refreshing piece by @trishgreenhalgh et al challenging the spurious hierarchy of systematic over narrative reviews - "systematic reviews summarise data" while "narrative reviews deepen understanding"

Time to challenge the spurious hierarchy of systematic over narrative reviews?

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

New @GlobalHealthBMJ paper by @VelinLotta et al "Conference equity in global health: a systematic review of factors impacting LMIC representation" /underrepresentation of LMIC attendees is a loss to the global health discourse; systemic changes needed!/

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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Two articles out in @GlobalHealthBMJ this week on coloniality and two European 'global health' institutions; one old, one new: 1. the old: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium: 2. the new: The Virchow Prize for Global Health:

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

I often wonder if we should reverse the direction of inclusion; if pulling the periphery onto ‘global platforms’ is inherently and inevitably elitist. Maybe the ‘global elite’ should seek to be included in the periphery?Maybe we should consider the other direction of inclusion.

kent buse

@kentbuse

3 years

Quote of the day; challenge of our times: 'accelerate the democratisation and representativeness of global health leadership (including recognising the importance of class and societal position, rather than just diversifying elites).' - @rasanathan

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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“In an era [of] “manuscript-based” dissertations… some scholars now seem to view the production of a systematic review as sufficient to “know” the literature in their field, bypassing the hard intellectual work of reading & reflecting on a wide range of writings on their topic.”

Carl May @carlrmay

@CarlRMay

21 days

Worth reading this by @salthorne 'On empty, redundant or pointless systematic reviews', a lovely piece in Nursing Inquiry

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 years

Something I’ve observed while asking HIC scholars to include LMIC authors in research done in their country: Many HIC scholars think they’re being asked to gift authorship to their LMIC partners; I suspect because gift authorship is an unspoken norm among HIC authors themselves.

Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

Please read our editorial—written with @NASAdoc —on using the ICMJE authorship criteria for inclusion It accompanies an important 'Consensus statement on measures to promote equitable authorship in LMIC-HIC research partnerships'

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

Please read our (written with @HimaniBhakuni_ ) new article in @LancetGH "Epistemic injustice in academic global health" /when @LancetGH asked "What is wrong with academic global health?", we answered: credibility deficit + interpretive marginalisation/ .

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 years

When ethics review fails, when peer review fails, when editorial oversight fails, when professional norms are not aligned with just and ethical practice, we are left with no option but make demands like the authors of this open letter have made. I have signed it. Please do too.

Chisomo Kalinga, PhD

@ChisomoWrites

2 years

My colleagues & I drafted an open letter to @ASRJournal in response to the Autoethnography article. We offered an explanation of the harms in great detail & have asked them to retract it. Please support us as signatories. All typos in it are mine.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

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"The ongoing introspection in global health journals is good—any attempt at self-reflection is worthwhile. But true progress requires the Global South to shape its own normative discourse & agenda, generate local knowledge for a global world, & lead in solving its own problems."

Kristof Decoster

@KristofDecoste1

2 years

Global Health’s Identity Crisis - by K R Pandey et al.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

"The Banality of Empathy" by the brilliant Namwali Serpell @namwalien is one of my favourite "global health" essays. Highly recommended. /if witnessing suffering firsthand doesn’t spark good deeds, why do we think art about suffering will?/

The Banality of Empathy | Namwali Serpell

The idea that art promotes empathy has become a platitude. This idea is particularly prevalent when it comes to those works of art described as “narrative”: stories, novels, TV shows, movies, comics....

www.nybooks.com

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

It was inevitable that “decolonizing” global health will become a buzzword. It is in the nature of such words & concepts. Maybe it is also their strength. The dead(?) bird in Toni Morrison’s Nobel lecture reminds me it doesn’t have to remain a buzzword.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

4 years

This is so very kind of you @DrEmeruemJnr - It is thanks to the work of our associate editors and editorial board, the editorial freedom that we enjoy from @bmj_latest , and the authors who have trusted us with their work, even and especially when they push long-overdue envelopes.

Dr Ebere Okereke

@DrEmeruemJnr

4 years

Can I just say that in my humble non-expert opinion @seyeabimbola is probably the best thing to happen to the entire @bmj_latest stable of journals. My reasons for this? Just scan the contents & editorials of @GlobalHealthBMJ , compare to its peer journals & agree with me.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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isiZulu proverb “Umuthi ugotshwa usemanzi”: “a tree is bent while it is still wet”. The ethical responsibility is on educators to support younger generations in dismantling global health foundations built on white saviourism. This work begins in our classrooms & with ourselves.

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

@paimadhu

9 months

Inspired by Teju Cole Are we training our students to be white saviours in global health? New @TheLancet essay by @ananya_tb , @shashikaLB , @JoyeuseSenga , Nadia González-Domínguez

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

Please read my new editorial in @GlobalHealthBMJ — "The uses of knowledge in global health" /"This literature is like the misleading tip of an iceberg. What remains buried are day-to-day uses of knowledge by actors at different scales of organisation."/

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

4 years

Too often authors of papers submitted to @GlobalHealthBMJ don't seem to know WHY they have conducted their study. What explains such HUGE failure? Warped incentives in HIC academia? Unthinking attitude to problems "elsewhere"? A real lack of a sense of audience in #globalhealth ?

Maarten van Smeden

@MaartenvSmeden

4 years

This @nytimes article hits the nail on its embarrassing giant head

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

5 years

This, from @MissChisomo is an important message for people who fund, oversee, conduct and publish #globalhealth research - “Caught between a rock and a hard place: navigating global research partnerships in the global South as an indigenous researcher”

Caught between a rock and a hard place: navigating global research partnerships in the global South...

Published in Journal of African Cultural Studies (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2019)

www.tandfonline.com

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

2 years

It is 12 years today. Orìsà bí ìyá kòsí láyé. "There’s no life that couldn’t be immortal if only for a moment. Death always arrives by that very moment too late. In vain it tugs at the knob of the invisible door. As far as you’ve come can’t be undone." — Wislawa Szymborska

Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

4 years

It's 10 years today since my mother, Sola Abimbola, died. And the pain, the sense of loss never goes away. She's who I've always wanted to be: fearless, generous, political, passionate, brilliant, combative, kind, committed, playful — like many personalities in one person.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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“We have to remember that “social determinants” is the language of the health system, the powerful. I increasingly use “social circumstances” to intentionally force people to think about what it means, not default to some stock understanding of “social determinants.” - @pstamber

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

3 years

Two editorials in @GlobalHealthBMJ on public/global health education inspired by Covid-19 A proposal for critical revisions in PH curriculum by Abdul Ghaffar et al A proposal to re-imagine GH teaching in HICs by @SallaAtkins et al

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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Whoever wrote this on behalf of @eLife should be ashamed of themselves. When a journal editor is no longer able to express outrage at human rights violations, we might as well say goodbye to academic freedom. For those who are not aware, this is the real cancel culture at work.

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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New editorial in @GlobalHealthBMJ - Beware of the success cartel: a plea for rational progress in global health

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

@seyeabimbola

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Journal editing is a largely ethics free space. In fields where people with power write about people with less power, almost every editorial decision has ethics and justice implications. The absence of rules reflects the assumption of a level playing field. cc @DrishtiEthics

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