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A spotlight on race and inequality has highlighted the colonial nature of historic medical institutions. But decolonisation means far more than diversification, finds Mun-Keat Looi
“I feel like everything’s being decolonised these days,” says Lioba Hirsch, a social anthropologist at the University of Edinburgh and author of a study into the colonial foundations of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
“On one hand, that’s encouraging because people think it’s something worth engaging in or thinking about. On the other hand, ‘decolonisation’ increasingly means diversifying staff, diversifying students, and trying to close the awarding gap between white students and other students rather than tackling the root problems it has caused.”
So, what else should decolonisation mean?
University College Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria, describes itself as the “flagship tertiary healthcare institution in Nigeria” offering “worl ....
One of Britain’s most renowned medical institutions is grappling with its colonial history and the effects of racism and inequality on its culture today. In the first of a two part series Mun-Keat Looi asks whether its efforts on decolonisation are enough
In 2019 the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) put itself under interrogation. The school, at the forefront of global health with a leading role in treatments for Ebola, malaria, and HIV, commissioned a two year independent review of structural racism at its heart.1
Completed in 2021, the review found that the university’s culture and practices “still too often disadvantage people of colour” and that its curriculum remained “Eurocentric.” Staff and students from minority groups felt “unsupported” when experiencing or trying to tackle racist behaviours, and they were found not to have “equitable experiences or opportunities to progress at LSHTM.” Discriminatory behaviour by senior s ....
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