Rethinking Global Health Through Ruinous Solidarity

Rethinking global health through ruinous solidarity

In order to truly decolonize the field of global health, it may be necessary for institutions from the Global North to practice "ruinous solidarity," according to a study published May 21, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS Global Public Health by Daniel Krugman from Brown University, United States, and Alice Bayingana from the University of Sydney, Australia.

How do we transform global health? Grant-dependent system may stall real change

In order to truly decolonize the field of global health, it may be necessary for institutions from the Global North to practice "ruinous solidarity," according to a study published in PLOS Global Public Health by Daniel Krugman from Brown University, United States, and Alice Bayingana from the University of Sydney, Australia.

To transform global health, the northern hemisphere should pass power

When it comes to global health research, institutions from the northern hemisphere still dominate, and passing the power to the south through “ruinous solidarity” could be the way to balance the scales, according to Aussie and US researchers. The team interviewed 30 faculty members from an anonymous school of public health and found that the needed changes to support research in the southern hemisphere go against the interests of the global Nort…