Reclaiming global health

Many people in HICs live in poverty and have inadequate health care and resultant ill health, comparable to situations in some LMIC settings.4 Achieving health equity for all people therefore needs to include some focus on low-income and disadvantaged sections of society in some of the world's richest countries. In the study, research, and practice of global health, the greatest progress will come from challenging embedded power imbalances and working in equitable partnerships. [...]inequity has roots in legacies of empire when industrialising nations developed an interest in health in the nations they colonised and sought to control infections that could harm foreign visitors, be exported to richer nations, or reduce local workforce productivity.7 Recent efforts to decolonise global health are welcome, and the academic community needs to ensure our future activities learn from the injustices of colonialism and the coloniality that has characterised engagement in the post-independence era.8 Colourful overlapping silhouettes of Hands forming a circle.