In this episode, Ndep speaks with Dr. Seye Abimbola, Principal Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. Dr. Abimbola shares how his mother’s political awareness shaped his understanding of healthcare and stresses the need for political insight into health systems. He discuss his book The Foreign Gaze, which explores power dynamics between health professionals from high-income and low-income countries. He also talks about the failure of an alternative medical school model in Nigeria and the challenges faced by doctors trained outside Western frameworks. Dr. Abimbola highlights the difficulty of challenging well-meaning but flawed systems and stresses the importance of collective action to drive change. In leadership, he calls for amplifying suppressed voices and pushing back against the status quo. He proposes reframing global health to focus on equity, not just interventions led by wealthy countries. Finally, he emphasizes the need for African nations to control foreign aid and protect their dignity and self-reliance. To prepare this episode we use : Abimbola, Seye. The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health. IRD Éditions, 2025. Caffin, Jean-Hugues, et Fatoumata Hane. « Une décolonisation sous dépendance est-elle possible? » Santé Publique 37, no 1 (2025): 7‑7. https://stm.cairn.info/revue-sante-publique-2025-1-page-7. Abimbola, Seye. « The Information Problem in Global Health ». BMJ Global Health 1, no 1 (6 avril 2016). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2015-900001. Abimbola, Seye, Sumegha Asthana, Cristian Montenegro, Renzo R. Guinto, Desmond Tanko Jumbam, Lance Louskieter, Kenneth Munge Kabubei, et al. « Addressing Power Asymmetries in Global Health: Imperatives in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic ». PLOS Medicine 18, no 4 (22 avril 2021): e1003604. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003604. Abimbola, Seye, Judith van de Kamp, Joni Lariat, Lekha Rathod, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Rieke van der Graaf, et Himani Bhakuni. « Unfair knowledge practices in global health: a realist synthesis ». Health Policy and Planning 39, no 6 (1 juillet 2024): 636‑50. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czae030. Kyobutungi, Catherine, Ebere Okereke, et Seye Abimbola. « After USAID: What Now for Aid and Africa? » BMJ 388 (11 mars 2025): r479. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r479. Louskieter, Lance, et Shehnaz Munshi. « Decolonial Thought and African Consciousness for Socially Just Health Systems: An Imaginative Space ». IHP (blog), 2020. https://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-article/decolonial-thought-and-african-consciousness-for-socially-just-health-systems-an-imaginative-space/. Mbaye, Rose, Redeat Gebeyehu, Stefanie Hossmann, Nicole Mbarga, Estella Bih-Neh, Lucrece Eteki, Ohene-Agyei Thelma, et al. « Who Is Telling the Story? A Systematic Review of Authorship for Infectious Disease Research Conducted in Africa, 1980–2016 ». BMJ Global Health 4, no 5 (18 octobre 2019). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001855. Munshi, Shehnaz, Lance Louskieter, et kentse Radebe. « Decentering Power in Health Policy and Systems Research: Theorising from the Margins ». IHP (blog), 23 janvier 2020. https://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-article/decentering-power-in-health-policy-and-systems-research-theorising-from-the-margins/. Pai, Madhukar. « Lack of Equity and Diversity Still Plague Global Health Research ». The Conversation (blog), 21 novembre 2019. http://theconversation.com/lack-of-equity-and-diversity-still-plague-global-health-research-127239. Global Health Unfiltred, Dissecting the foreign gaze in global health with Seye Abimbola, https://open.spotify.com/episode/0GkXRwPz2eX4wWzriIJ76u?si=5ef8765be2b94550, 10 June 2022 Global Health Unfiltred, Navigating Colonial love with Dr Seye Abimbola: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0UkETRABxL8pUh3phyPXk9?si=5cf46c92e12f4a57, 7 March 2025