We are two Indigenous young people from the Oceti Sakowin, made up of the Lakota and
Dakota Tribal Nations in modern day US and Canada. As Indigenous health professionals …

Despite taking on several forms throughout history such as colonial medicine, tropical
medicine, and international health, the field of global health continues to uphold colonialist …

The movement to decolonize global health and address power inequities among its actors is
not new. Founded on the work of colonized and marginalized people themselves, initiatives …

Global health research and education curricula should be decolonized. The “global” in
global health helps question ethnocentrism and account for heterogeneity across borders …

The lack of literature on Indigenous conceptions of health and the social determinants of
health (SDH) for US Indigenous communities limits available information for Indigenous …

The growing awareness of colonialism's role in global health partnerships between HICs
and LMICs and the associated calls for decolonization in global health has led to discussion …

Medicine and public health have always been shaped by social and political values, 1 as
evident in efforts to redress social inequities in health, struggles to realize health as a …

As Section Editors of the Indigenous Health section of PLOS Global Public Health, we were
asked to think about the urgent health priorities facing Indigenous people around the world …

This essay summarizes and responds to the Think Pieces gathered here through the lens of
critical global health. I ask: What does global health offer that differs from the international …

To date, there has been scarce effort to consider the intertwining of colonization and the
commercial determinants of Indigenous health. This is a vital omission, and one that this …