Positionality, reflexivity and ethics in global public health research

Place of Positionality, Values, Ethics and Reflexivity in Qualitative Urban Field Work Research

This paper details my field work experiences during my doctoral research in Nairobi rural-urban fringe, Kenya. The field work was conducted before, during and after a period of election related violence. The paper details the choice of my methodology and also enumerates various decisions that I had to take during the field work when the situation was visibly bleak. The paper provides lessons an...

Critical public health ethics and Canada's role in global health.

This commentary introduces critical public health ethics as an innovative lens for considering Canada's role in global health. Arising from the relatively young field of public health ethics, this analytic perspective sheds light on questions regarding public health policy, research and practice that often remain shaded from view because of traditional ways of thinking about public health. The ...

Imperialism, research ethics and global health.

Public Health and Public Health Ethics*

Spectacular achievements in the health of individuals have not been matched by equivalent improvement in the health of whole populations. Indeed it is against the background of deterioration in levels of population health in some parts of the world and the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases in association with powerful globalizing forces that there has been a recrudescence of int...

Ethics in global health research: the need for balance

Lauren C Ng, Charlotte Hanlon, Getnet Yimer, David C Henderson, and Abebaw Fekadu Chester M Pierce MD Division of Global Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA (LCN, DCH); Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (LCN, DCH); Department of Psychiatry (CH, AF) and Department of Pharmacology and Biochemistry (GY), School of Medicine, College of H...