S03 Ep 03: Safieh

In this insightful episode, we’re joined by Safieh, a trailblazer in decolonizing global health. With over 15 years of experience in the humanitarian sector, Safieh shares practical tools to dismantle the coloniality of knowledge and being within international public health projects. From her work as a medical doctor to establishing the first open-access, multi-country Ebola data repository, Safieh’s journey is a testament to the power of intersectional feminism, open science, and decolonial approaches.

Sources:

• Transforming global health: decoloniality and the human condition, Raphael Lencucha
• Towards a bidirectional decoloniality in academic global health: insights from settler colonialism and racial capitalism, Bram Wispelwey, Chidinma Osuagwu, David Mills, Tinashe Goronga, Michelle Morse
• Shifting Power in Global Health: Creating partnerships to put decoloniality into practice, United Nations Univeristy
• Why and for whom are we decolonising global health?, Ong’era F Mogakaa, Jenell Stewart, Elizabeth Bukusi
• Safieh' s newsletter
• Epistemic violence in the humanitarian sector

You can find the complete transcript here