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Epidemic Illusions: On the coloniality of global public health – Eugene Richardson in conversation Decolonising Global Health – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (DGH-LSHTM) and the LSHTM Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre invite you to a panel discussion centred around Eugene Richardson’s recent book Epidemic Illusions. While he mainly draws on his experience working on the front-line to combat the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, this insight on the coloniality of public health and the underlying inequities that exist, are relevant in the face of any global public health emergency. He asserts that the biggest epidemic he has encountered is not Ebola but the epidemic of illusions – transmitted by the coloniality of knowledge production. ....