Has Authorship in the Decolonizing Global Health Movement Been Colonized?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Decolonization in global health is a recent movement aimed at relinquishing remnants of supremacist mindsets, inequitable structures, and power differentials in global health.

Objective

To determine the author demographics of publications on decolonizing global health and global health partnerships between low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and high-income countries (HICs).

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of publications related to decolonizing global health and global health partnerships from the inception of the selected journal databases (i.e., Medline, CAB Global Health, EMBASE, CINAHL, and Web of Science) to November 14, 2022. Author country affiliations were assigned as listed in each publication. Author gender was assigned using

SUBMITTER: Rees CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10289040 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature