Ecology of War, Health Research and Knowledge Subjugation: Insights from the Middle East and North Africa Region

In an ecology of war, as experienced in the Middle East and North Africa region, health research faces several interrelated challenges: de-prioritization, paucity in the generation of reliable data, and its securitization. This directly contributes to local knowledge subjugation and research waste a...

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Autores principales:	Nassim El Achi, Marilyne Menassa, Richard Sullivan, Preeti Patel, Rita Giacaman, Ghassan S. Abu-Sittah, on behalf of R4HC-MENA
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Ubiquity Press 2020
Materias:	Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/146e7a5d5dc64661ba982d55bd520ab1
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:146e7a5d5dc64661ba982d55bd520ab12021-12-02T11:15:48ZEcology of War, Health Research and Knowledge Subjugation: Insights from the Middle East and North Africa Region2214-999610.5334/aogh.3015https://doaj.org/article/146e7a5d5dc64661ba982d55bd520ab12020-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/3015https://doaj.org/toc/2214-9996In an ecology of war, as experienced in the Middle East and North Africa region, health research faces several interrelated challenges: de-prioritization, paucity in the generation of reliable data, and its securitization. This directly contributes to local knowledge subjugation and research waste as local narratives are disqualified in favor of institutionalized and privileged global unitary knowledge. Huge efforts that require political will and commitment, coupled with multidisciplinary approaches and sustainable collaborations between researchers and humanitarian workers at the local, regional and global levels, are indispensable to give more space for the abandoned local knowledge in order to have contextualized and more impactful interventions where more lives are saved.Nassim El AchiMarilyne MenassaRichard SullivanPreeti PatelRita GiacamanGhassan S. Abu-Sittahon behalf of R4HC-MENAUbiquity PressarticleInfectious and parasitic diseasesRC109-216Public aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENAnnals of Global Health, Vol 86, Iss 1 (2020)
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description	In an ecology of war, as experienced in the Middle East and North Africa region, health research faces several interrelated challenges: de-prioritization, paucity in the generation of reliable data, and its securitization. This directly contributes to local knowledge subjugation and research waste as local narratives are disqualified in favor of institutionalized and privileged global unitary knowledge. Huge efforts that require political will and commitment, coupled with multidisciplinary approaches and sustainable collaborations between researchers and humanitarian workers at the local, regional and global levels, are indispensable to give more space for the abandoned local knowledge in order to have contextualized and more impactful interventions where more lives are saved.
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author	Nassim El Achi Marilyne Menassa Richard Sullivan Preeti Patel Rita Giacaman Ghassan S. Abu-Sittah on behalf of R4HC-MENA
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title	Ecology of War, Health Research and Knowledge Subjugation: Insights from the Middle East and North Africa Region
title_short	Ecology of War, Health Research and Knowledge Subjugation: Insights from the Middle East and North Africa Region
title_full	Ecology of War, Health Research and Knowledge Subjugation: Insights from the Middle East and North Africa Region
title_fullStr	Ecology of War, Health Research and Knowledge Subjugation: Insights from the Middle East and North Africa Region
title_full_unstemmed	Ecology of War, Health Research and Knowledge Subjugation: Insights from the Middle East and North Africa Region
title_sort	ecology of war, health research and knowledge subjugation: insights from the middle east and north africa region
publisher	Ubiquity Press
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Ecology of War, Health Research and Knowledge Subjugation: Insights from the Middle East and North Africa Region

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