Global health degrees: at what cost?

摘要

In theory, global health, as a field, takes pride in principles such as equity, fairness, reciprocity and bidirectional partnerships. In practice, many aspects of global health are dominated by individuals and institutions in high-income countries (HICs) who seem to benefit more than their counterparts in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Global health organisations are mostly head-quartered in HICs, and run by people, primarily men, from HICs. Further, authorship of global health publications is dominated by people in HICs, as well as editorial boards of global health journals.