This is Prof. Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS is a Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health at McGill University, Montreal.
He is global health eminence par excellence.
And he just eviscerated global health.
🧵🪡
He is global health eminence par excellence.
And he just eviscerated global health.
🧵🪡
Madhu’s speech at the International AIDS Conference just shook global health at the core. Three excerpts here.
1) Global health structures are racist; and this is not a bug, it is a feature.
1) Global health structures are racist; and this is not a bug, it is a feature.
2) Decolonisation is not discourse, it is power - including the power to produce medicines.
3) Privileged people, of every kind, are not called only to acknowledge. They are called to be active allies. That is how we remake a true global health.
The clarity of Madhu’s call - the way that this exceptionally accomplished scientist just stripped away all the varnish and spoke truth about power! If it is uncomfortable to hear, pls listen to it again, & share with friends it will make even *more* uncomfortable. 🙏 @paimadhu
Follow these inspirational decolonisers who made today’s conversation happen: @tabitamah @KreenaGovender @msletsike @VuyisekaDubula @yodifiji
Rhodes Must Fall - Everywhere.
Rhodes Must Fall - Everywhere.
To all who RT’d, you got Madhu’s speech on decolonisation from the hall to so many people’s phones that it made the TV news. @tabitamah, @KreenaGovender the ripples of change you started keep spreading out! @paimadhu, @yodifiji, @msletsike, @VuyisekaDubula, @Winnie_Byanyima 🙏
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