Beyond the Ivory Tower: A Dialogue on Decolonising Global Health
Friday 25 April 2025 17:30 to 19:00Speakers: |
Shashika Bandara, McGill University Maju Brunette, The Ohio State University/ Green Templeton College, University of Oxford Neelika Malavige, University of Sri Jayewardenepura/ Green Templeton College, University of Oxford |
Location: EP Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College, 43 Woodstock Road, Oxford, and online
Co-sponsored by the Oxford Global Health Society.
A forward-looking dialogue with scholars from the Global South, addressing issues of structural injustice with health equity front and centre. This dialogue is expected to serve as a platform for bringing together scholars willing to adopt a kaleidoscopic lens on the current decolonizing global health narrative. There will be a Q&A, then a short drinks reception. This event builds on the NDPCHS blog series Decolonising Global Health and a panel at Green Templeton in September, Beyond the Ivory Tower: Healthcare Leadership in Times of Crisis. The event is co-sponsored by the Oxford Global Health Society (OGHS).
For registered online participants, a zoom invite will be sent via email 48 hours before the event.
The event will start promptly at 5:30pm. All welcome to join us starting at 5pm.
Registration
Register to attend in person or online. For more information, contact Maria Julia Brunette at maju.brunette@gtc.ox.ac.uk.
Suggested reading
- Bandara S, Banerjee AT, Pai M (2025) Can we unplug global health education from The Matrix?
PLOS Global Public Health 5(2): e0004307. - Brunette, MJ (2021). Moving the needle on global health equity: a look back from 2030, Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, 76:3, 121-122,
- Brunette, MJ (2025) ‘Rejecting the single story’. Decolonising Global Health Blog -a 12-part blog series, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Blog, Oxford University. 31 January.
- Malavige GN, Medigeshi GR, Sasmono RT, Amaratunga C. Funding and collaboration inequalities in infectious disease research – why does it matter? Trends Microbiol. 2025 Apr;33(4):378-381. Epub 2024 Dec 12. PMID: 39672746.
- Pai, Madhukar et al. (2024). Shifting power in global health will require leadership by the Global South and allyship by the Global North, The Lancet, Volume 404, Issue 10464, 1711 – 1713.
- Saha, Senjuti et al. (2024). Overcoming colonialism in pathogen genomics. The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 6, Issue 7, e520 – e525.
Speakers
Shashika Bandara is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Global Public Health in the School of Population and Global Health at McGill University. He co-leads McGill University’s research on policy exemplars addressing structural discrimination to improve health in collaboration with the O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health. His research and advocacy focus on global health policy and governance.
Maju Brunette is a Peruvian native who champions health equity for historically marginalized communities in the Americas. Drawing on her skills as an engineer and systems thinker, she co-designs global public health through both a decolonizing and gender equity lens.
Neelika Malavige is a Professor at the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka and an academic visitor at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford. She is the president-elect of the International Society for Infectious Diseases. She has been working on immunopathogenesis of dengue and pandemic preparedness.
