community voices
2/28/2017
Check out what decolonization means to the facilitators and cohort of Spring '17! Submission for the Bay Area Global Health Innovation Challenge.
Check out what decolonization means to the facilitators and cohort of Spring '17! Submission for the Bay Area Global Health Innovation Challenge.
1/10/2017
I’m so happy to say this is finally a reality.
Last year, I spoke at the Center for Health Leadership’s StoryCon 2016 about the struggle of studying public health — looking at my mother country and culture through the lens of colonial power. The idea of being caught between looking forward and looking back stuck with me, until I raised the idea for this course at a DICE meeting at the School of Public Health. Since then, I have had the support of so many powerful and intelligent people (Brittney, Ursula, Rebecca, Monica, Miguel, Ismael and MC only a few among them), and I am proud to bring to you what is essentially a crowd-sourced curriculum on the effects of colonialism on public health through today.
“Decolonizing Bodies in Public Health” is an attempt to begin to reframe public health and global health narratives about developing nations and disadvantaged communities by looking at the roots of that disadvantage — looking at global health from the perspective of the colonized.
If you’re interested in taking this and/or have any questions, please don’t hesitate to message me or email [email protected]. A website will be coming soon, but until then please head on over to the page to check out the basic info and fill out the interest form for a CCN! I’m so excited to finally have a formal space for this dialogue, and for all of you to join in! Let’s talk power.
Sincerely,
Smitha
I’m so happy to say this is finally a reality.
Last year, I spoke at the Center for Health Leadership’s StoryCon 2016 about the struggle of studying public health — looking at my mother country and culture through the lens of colonial power. The idea of being caught between looking forward and looking back stuck with me, until I raised the idea for this course at a DICE meeting at the School of Public Health. Since then, I have had the support of so many powerful and intelligent people (Brittney, Ursula, Rebecca, Monica, Miguel, Ismael and MC only a few among them), and I am proud to bring to you what is essentially a crowd-sourced curriculum on the effects of colonialism on public health through today.
“Decolonizing Bodies in Public Health” is an attempt to begin to reframe public health and global health narratives about developing nations and disadvantaged communities by looking at the roots of that disadvantage — looking at global health from the perspective of the colonized.
If you’re interested in taking this and/or have any questions, please don’t hesitate to message me or email [email protected]. A website will be coming soon, but until then please head on over to the page to check out the basic info and fill out the interest form for a CCN! I’m so excited to finally have a formal space for this dialogue, and for all of you to join in! Let’s talk power.
Sincerely,
Smitha