Hi Arthur—thank you for sharing these comments and raising your important observation of the relative lack of global south voices in the EA movement. While there is an ongoing effort to increase participation in EA groups in the Global South, it is also essential for those of us in the Global North to understand the depth and implications of this concern. To that end, I have embarked on educating myself (especially from a global health perspective) and wanted to share these resources that I have found helpful, including a summer course next month that I’ve signed up for. Hopefully others in our community will also engage with:
1. A YouTube video: “Shifting power in global health will require leadership by the Global South and allyship by the Global North”, Dr Madhukar Pai.
2. Two short books:
- “The Foreign Gaze” by Seye Ambimbola, a book available for free here.
- “Rethinking Global Health. Frameworks of Power”, by Rochelle A. Burgess, a book available for free here.
3. An online summer course, “Reimagining Global Health”, Summer Institutes of Global Health, McGill University. Runs the week of June 8, reduced registration fees for students and LMICs. (Previous years’ course slides are available here).
4. The Decolonization Toolkit, created by the student initiative Eye on Global Health in Copenhagen.
People may also be interested in this previous forum post.
Like you, I wonder how much more successful the EA movement might be in achieving its goals if it addresses this “structural blind spot” and enables and elevates Global South voices throughout its levels of leadership.
Hi Svetha,
Thanks for accepting these questions and for the impressive work that New Incentives has achieved! I’d like to ask if you have any new data about the effect of the NI-ABAE program on overall health-care attendance behaviour of families—has the program generated any additional data about whether CCTs lead to families prioritizing the incentivized infant vaccine visits over other healthcare visits (including those for other family members) for which no incentive is paid? Or conversely, perhaps other healthcare visits might also increase for some reason? Thanks!