Continuing the ideas and intentions proposed in our inaugural editorial,“A New Journal for a
New Era”, 1 we are pleased to present a collection of papers dedicated to the critical topic of …

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the critical need to reimagine and repair the broken
systems of global health. Specifically, the pandemic demonstrates the hollowness of the …

Few times in the modern era has the collective nature of health been so acutely highlighted
as it has been during the COVID-19 pandemic. The spring of 2020 saw mask mandates …

This article states the need to decolonize the theories, policies, and practices that dominate
health, and reflects on the necessity for a new epistemology built from the Global South. This …

New contours of global inequality present new challenges for global health, and require that
we consider new kinds of health issues as global. I provide a number of illustrations, arguing …

In September 2015 UN-member states agreed on a new framework to replace the
Millennium Devel-opment Goals (MDGs). The new framework will guide global health …

In the second year of the pandemic, the malaise of global health governance has come to
the fore at the intersection of the trajectories of global crises that have converged in 2020 …

The persistent influence of coloniality both from external actors and from within threatens the
response to COVID-19 in Africa. This essay presents historical context for the colonial …

Over the past few months, COVID-19 has ravaged health systems and economies in
countries across the world. While many would argue that a pandemic of respiratory disease …

16| Chapter 2 tion, the involvement of social scientists, particularly anthropologists, in
enabling and justifying the violence of colonialism, and the scientific racism that provided its …