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Do researchers from the Global South feel pressure to speak northern ideas, in northern language, to be heard and respected? Dr Thirusha Naidu explains the idea of ‘Northern ventriloquism’ and explores epistemic disobedience as a way to combat the problems it creates.

Read Dr Naidu's essay, Says who? Northern ventriloquism, or epistemic disobedience in global health scholarship, in The Lancet Global Health: thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(21)00198-4/fulltext?dgcid=youtube_video_lancet

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00:00 - What is ‘Northern Ventriloquism’?
01:22 - Epistemic disobedience to fight northern ventriloquism
03:13 - Flattening the power structures in global health
04:51 – What is wrong with global health? Read more

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