Decolonising Global Health: understand, reflect, improve

Decolonising practices: can journalism learn from health care to improve Indigenous health outcomes?

Decolonising the University Curriculum

The student protests of 2015 precipitated a renewed interest in the decolonisation of the university in South Africa, and by association the decolonisation of the university curriculum. The decolonisation of the curriculum is an important conversation, and long overdue, given that the Western model of academic organisation on which the South African university is based, remains largely unchalle...

Setting Housing Standards to Improve Global Health

Developing World Health Organization international guidelines is a highly formal process. Yet the resulting guidelines, which Member States are encouraged, but not required to adopt, are a powerful way of developing rigorous policy and fostering implementation. Using the example of the housing and health guidelines, which are currently being finalised, this paper outlines the process for develo...

Addressing Malnutrition to Improve Global Health

Strengthening public health education and training to improve global health.

Public health training and education have existed for over a century,1 yet there is little systematic evidence on whether current approaches prepare graduates to improve health by developing, evaluating and implementing effective and equityoriented public health programmes. There are three reasons to document and debate this topic worldwide and disproportionately focus on lowand middle-income c...