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Joined November 2018
Highlight of 2019 was having Dr. Bassett join our conference and serve as our mentor. So lucky to have such amazing support!!
A great pleasure this year has been working with the next generation of #publichealth leaders. In Feb, spoke at two student-led events: 1) @decolonizegh here (panel w. @gregggonsalves & @klts0); 2) Social Epi Lecture @JohnsHopkinsSPH @JohnsHopkinsEPI buff.ly/38UsP9N
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And having you at the conference was def a highlight of 2019!! Thank you!!
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and a contract in 2019 🎄
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it is here!! it is happening!!
So excited to announce the Duke Decolonizing Global Health Conference with @YadurshiniR and @laura_mkumba. Passionate about working towards planetary health but want to do so in anti-colonialist and non-exploitative ways? Join us Jan 31st! To register: dukedecolonizegh2020.eventbr…
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if the work's gonna be anti-colonial and non-exploitative, it's also gotta be anti-capitalist!
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the organizers said livestreaming will also be happening!
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We stand in solidarity with students protests in India and condemn the violent suppression of protesters. We encourage all Harvard affiliates to sign here: forms.gle/6PxuF2dySvvjoc5L6 Join the solidarity protest at Harvard today at 7pm.
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Statement from the Civil and Human Rights Committee of HGSU-UAW on Gov. Rick Snyder's Fellowship #NoSnyderFellowship
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solidarity w those fighting for justice at hopkins #jhusitin
7 Johns Hopkins protesters arrested after monthlong sit-in at Garland Hall over private police, ICE contracts baltimoresun.com/news/maryla…
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Decolonize Global Health retweeted
Don’t underestimate the ways universities profit off of intellectual radicalism and activism. They love it on campus in the context of publications and workshops as long as it isn’t directed at challenging the structure of the university itself.
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31 of our student workers are sitting in at University Hall this morning for a #ContractNow and Harvard just kicked out the press. Happy International Workers’ Day!
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All we want for International Workers’ Day is a...
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thank you @H_S_Global!!
A group of students organized the #DecolonizingGlobalHealth Conference at @HarvardChanSPH in February 2019. The collective emerged out of frustrations with how #globalhealth is taught in depoliticized, un-critical and ahistorical ways. buff.ly/2ZxRi01 #healthsystems
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"As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet becomes a sacrifice zone: we all inhabit the periphery of the profit-making machine."
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Decolonize Global Health retweeted
So happy to share that perspective. Thanks!
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Hello @DecolonizeGh. You had asked for recommendations on #GlobalHealthHistory bibliography. Here's a new book that should be of interest: link.springer.com/book/10.10….
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due to technical difficulties, we unfortunately don't have a recording for panel 3 (Sexual Secrets: The transnational implications of race-based science and eugenics within global sexual reproductive health and rights)
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Summary notes of each panel will also be up in the near future!
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