Colonial legacies are deeply rooted in everyday global health practice. This Topic Collection meaningfully engages with some of those legacies through a range of lenses including from research, ethics, humanitarian crises responses, archival practices and the contexts of care in the pandemic and across chronic ill-health. Throughout the Collection, authors highlight the entrenched inequalities, power imbalances and marginalisation that produce and reinforce colonialist legacies. An analysis of these topics illuminates three unifying themes of data justice, epistemic power and a need for technological critique.
For instance, illustrative cases from the Topic Collection such as the descriptions of the Covid pandemic (