Seye Abimbola
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
Writer, Teacher, Researcher | on Epistemic Practices in Health Systems and Global Health | @sydney.edu.au | Views expressed here are my own.
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Seye Abimbola
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
· Nov 18
I'm happy to announce that my book, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health", is now out!
You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...
The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...
You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...
The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
I did both history & ethics as part of my MPH but the classes were a tiny % of overall student intake.
Those subjects provided vital context & Qs for everything else I learned.
Moving beyond the ☑️ or "minimalist, procedural, institution-protecting ethics of ethics committees or peer review" ...👇
Those subjects provided vital context & Qs for everything else I learned.
Moving beyond the ☑️ or "minimalist, procedural, institution-protecting ethics of ethics committees or peer review" ...👇
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I did both history & ethics as part of my MPH but the classes were a tiny % of overall student intake.
Those subjects provided vital context & Qs for everything else I learned.
Moving beyond the ☑️ or "minimalist, procedural, institution-protecting ethics of ethics committees or peer review" ...👇
Those subjects provided vital context & Qs for everything else I learned.
Moving beyond the ☑️ or "minimalist, procedural, institution-protecting ethics of ethics committees or peer review" ...👇
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @TheLancet: "Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians" (edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith).
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @TheLancet: "Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians" (edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith).
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Epistemic dignity
I wrote an essay on this important book for @TheLancet: "Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians" (edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith).
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I wrote an essay on this important book for @TheLancet: "Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians" (edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith).
Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
A short while ago, Dr Janani Shanthosh and I had an engaging conversation about The Foreign Gaze, which she's now beautifully captured in text and audio.
It's the first in her series of interviews titled On Theory.
Please read, listen, and follow the series.
Here goes ontheory.com/interviews/s...
It's the first in her series of interviews titled On Theory.
Please read, listen, and follow the series.
Here goes ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Seye Abimbola | On Theory
Seye Abimbola wants us to stop mistaking prestige for insight – and inclusion for equity.
At a bustling restaurant tucked into a leafy corner of the University of Sydney, Associate Professor Seye Abim...
ontheory.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A short while ago, Dr Janani Shanthosh and I had an engaging conversation about The Foreign Gaze, which she's now beautifully captured in text and audio.
It's the first in her series of interviews titled On Theory.
Please read, listen, and follow the series.
Here goes ontheory.com/interviews/s...
It's the first in her series of interviews titled On Theory.
Please read, listen, and follow the series.
Here goes ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
“I think oftentimes when people talk about this history, they usually focus on cis gay men . . . But there is a really exciting new, newish field of study, of scholars who are uncovering stories of people who were lesbians, bisexual, transgender and those really untold stories.”
Holocaust Researcher Says Up to 1/3 of Imprisoned LGBTQ+ People Reported by Friends and Family
A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center aims to shed light on the diversity of LGBTQ+ Holocaust stories.
www.them.us
November 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“I think oftentimes when people talk about this history, they usually focus on cis gay men . . . But there is a really exciting new, newish field of study, of scholars who are uncovering stories of people who were lesbians, bisexual, transgender and those really untold stories.”
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Power, inequity, and the work of solidarity.
During the 2025 Global Health Solidarity Open Forum, Seye Abimbola named the hard truths: power imbalances, inequities, and injustices often block real solidarity and keep communities at the margins.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ril...
During the 2025 Global Health Solidarity Open Forum, Seye Abimbola named the hard truths: power imbalances, inequities, and injustices often block real solidarity and keep communities at the margins.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ril...
Solidarity in Global Health: Responding to Funding Cuts in Research | 2025 GH-Solidarity Open Forum
YouTube video by Solidarity in Global Health Project
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October 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Power, inequity, and the work of solidarity.
During the 2025 Global Health Solidarity Open Forum, Seye Abimbola named the hard truths: power imbalances, inequities, and injustices often block real solidarity and keep communities at the margins.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ril...
During the 2025 Global Health Solidarity Open Forum, Seye Abimbola named the hard truths: power imbalances, inequities, and injustices often block real solidarity and keep communities at the margins.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ril...
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social‘s work majorly inspires the next gathering of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation, scrutinising gaze beyond the global North/South binary
bsky.app/profile/asso...
bsky.app/profile/asso...
Our 2026 RUTA conference will be exploring the role of embodied knowledges and knowledges rooted in the places we conduct research about. We will discuss how the making of knowledge, art and cultural heritage changes when it is grounded in places and communities and which possibilities this opens
November 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social‘s work majorly inspires the next gathering of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation, scrutinising gaze beyond the global North/South binary
bsky.app/profile/asso...
bsky.app/profile/asso...
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On the power and injustice of the foreign gaze: “But it is also about power – the kind that distances people. That foreign audience might be a powerful policymaker, a set of academics, or a philanthropist. The question is always: who is looking, from where, and what gets distorted in the process?”
“The more proximate you are to people’s lived realities, and the more embedded you are, the less distanced by class you are, the more you see. The higher you go…the higher your propensity to not be very useful.”
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Seye Abimbola | On Theory
Seye Abimbola wants us to stop mistaking prestige for insight – and inclusion for equity.
At a bustling restaurant tucked into a leafy corner of the University of Sydney, Associate Professor Seye Abim...
www.ontheory.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
On the power and injustice of the foreign gaze: “But it is also about power – the kind that distances people. That foreign audience might be a powerful policymaker, a set of academics, or a philanthropist. The question is always: who is looking, from where, and what gets distorted in the process?”
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(this is true of politics and journalism too)
“The more proximate you are to people’s lived realities, and the more embedded you are, the less distanced by class you are, the more you see. The higher you go…the higher your propensity to not be very useful.”
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Seye Abimbola | On Theory
Seye Abimbola wants us to stop mistaking prestige for insight – and inclusion for equity.
At a bustling restaurant tucked into a leafy corner of the University of Sydney, Associate Professor Seye Abim...
www.ontheory.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
(this is true of politics and journalism too)
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
Love this - and agree with it too!! 👇
“The more proximate you are to people’s lived realities, and the more embedded you are, the less distanced by class you are, the more you see. The higher you go…the higher your propensity to not be very useful.”
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Seye Abimbola | On Theory
Seye Abimbola wants us to stop mistaking prestige for insight – and inclusion for equity.
At a bustling restaurant tucked into a leafy corner of the University of Sydney, Associate Professor Seye Abim...
www.ontheory.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Love this - and agree with it too!! 👇
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“At twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, my heroes were people who had been jailed, exiled, or killed for speaking out. I understood very early that to be a human being is to fight.”
Going to have to read this book. Suspect the principles also apply to any hierarchical organisation.
Going to have to read this book. Suspect the principles also apply to any hierarchical organisation.
“The more proximate you are to people’s lived realities, and the more embedded you are, the less distanced by class you are, the more you see. The higher you go…the higher your propensity to not be very useful.”
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Seye Abimbola | On Theory
Seye Abimbola wants us to stop mistaking prestige for insight – and inclusion for equity.
At a bustling restaurant tucked into a leafy corner of the University of Sydney, Associate Professor Seye Abim...
www.ontheory.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“At twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, my heroes were people who had been jailed, exiled, or killed for speaking out. I understood very early that to be a human being is to fight.”
Going to have to read this book. Suspect the principles also apply to any hierarchical organisation.
Going to have to read this book. Suspect the principles also apply to any hierarchical organisation.
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
Great editorial from the lancet Global Health :
"Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers"
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
"Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers"
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers
Power imbalances persist in research, prioritising the experience and knowledge of
those with social, political, and economic power while silencing or misrepresenting
others. This dynamic—which is int...
www.thelancet.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Great editorial from the lancet Global Health :
"Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers"
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
"Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers"
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
“The more proximate you are to people’s lived realities, and the more embedded you are, the less distanced by class you are, the more you see. The higher you go…the higher your propensity to not be very useful.”
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Seye Abimbola | On Theory
Seye Abimbola wants us to stop mistaking prestige for insight – and inclusion for equity.
At a bustling restaurant tucked into a leafy corner of the University of Sydney, Associate Professor Seye Abim...
www.ontheory.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“The more proximate you are to people’s lived realities, and the more embedded you are, the less distanced by class you are, the more you see. The higher you go…the higher your propensity to not be very useful.”
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social
www.ontheory.com/interviews/s...
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🎙️In 'Revisiting resilience in health systems research' podcast, Sophie Witter, @sushilbaral.bsky.social, @seyeabimbola.bsky.social & @kimozano.bsky.social talk resilience
What are the concepts?
Who is expected to be resilient?
How are communities involved?
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/re...
What are the concepts?
Who is expected to be resilient?
How are communities involved?
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/re...
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🎙️In 'Revisiting resilience in health systems research' podcast, Sophie Witter, @sushilbaral.bsky.social, @seyeabimbola.bsky.social & @kimozano.bsky.social talk resilience
What are the concepts?
Who is expected to be resilient?
How are communities involved?
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/re...
What are the concepts?
Who is expected to be resilient?
How are communities involved?
www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/re...
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
On further reflection, handing operation of our Universities over to a professional administrative class with no personal investment in the educational mission of the university or the creation and maintenance of knowledge might have been somewhat in error.
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
On further reflection, handing operation of our Universities over to a professional administrative class with no personal investment in the educational mission of the university or the creation and maintenance of knowledge might have been somewhat in error.
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Every single chance I get I teach the history of Haiti.
Because it absolutely did teach the world not just about freedom but also the violent repercussions often inflicted on those who seek freedom and justice.
Because it absolutely did teach the world not just about freedom but also the violent repercussions often inflicted on those who seek freedom and justice.
Finally someone bold enough to ask, is new york ready for a mayor who opposes slavery? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Every single chance I get I teach the history of Haiti.
Because it absolutely did teach the world not just about freedom but also the violent repercussions often inflicted on those who seek freedom and justice.
Because it absolutely did teach the world not just about freedom but also the violent repercussions often inflicted on those who seek freedom and justice.
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations - The Lancet Global Health @lancetgh.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations
Global health research is generally done by researchers, whether locally or internationally,
based in locations other than the study locations and by people with more power than
the marginalised group...
www.thelancet.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations - The Lancet Global Health @lancetgh.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
"UN refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic and politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee"
this keeps getting worse
www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
this keeps getting worse
www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
Sudan’s paramilitary killed hundreds including hospital patients in Darfur, residents say
Sudan’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people including patients in a hospital after they seized el-Fasher city in the western Darfur region over the weekend, according to the UN, displaced re...
www.ctvnews.ca
October 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"UN refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic and politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee"
this keeps getting worse
www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
this keeps getting worse
www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
A short while ago, Dr Janani Shanthosh and I had an engaging conversation about The Foreign Gaze, which she's now beautifully captured in text and audio.
It's the first in her series of interviews titled On Theory.
Please read, listen, and follow the series.
Here goes ontheory.com/interviews/s...
It's the first in her series of interviews titled On Theory.
Please read, listen, and follow the series.
Here goes ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Seye Abimbola | On Theory
Seye Abimbola wants us to stop mistaking prestige for insight – and inclusion for equity.
At a bustling restaurant tucked into a leafy corner of the University of Sydney, Associate Professor Seye Abim...
ontheory.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A short while ago, Dr Janani Shanthosh and I had an engaging conversation about The Foreign Gaze, which she's now beautifully captured in text and audio.
It's the first in her series of interviews titled On Theory.
Please read, listen, and follow the series.
Here goes ontheory.com/interviews/s...
It's the first in her series of interviews titled On Theory.
Please read, listen, and follow the series.
Here goes ontheory.com/interviews/s...
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
“The field you’re entering... was designed, deliberately, for you to have as little impact as possible on equity & justice... It’s designed to keep you busy doing nonsense. Your job is to see through that & do your very best to resist.”
globalhealthotherwise.com/why-global-h...
globalhealthotherwise.com/why-global-h...
Why global health research must stop treating communities as data sources and start honoring them as knowers - GHO
Professor Seye Abimbola joins us for the Expert's Voice where he discusses epistemic injustice, the stubborn legacies of colonialism in academic global health, and why meaningful change requires us to...
globalhealthotherwise.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
“The field you’re entering... was designed, deliberately, for you to have as little impact as possible on equity & justice... It’s designed to keep you busy doing nonsense. Your job is to see through that & do your very best to resist.”
globalhealthotherwise.com/why-global-h...
globalhealthotherwise.com/why-global-h...
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations
Global health research is generally done by researchers, whether locally or internationally,
based in locations other than the study locations and by people with more power than
the marginalised group...
www.thelancet.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
Thanks to Maebh Ní Fhallúin for this powerful reflection on ethics and justice on S4 of the #GlobalHealthMatters podcast.
Share your ideas for S5 via our listener survey 👉 https://tinyurl.com/GHM-Listener-Survey
Share your ideas for S5 via our listener survey 👉 https://tinyurl.com/GHM-Listener-Survey
October 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Thanks to Maebh Ní Fhallúin for this powerful reflection on ethics and justice on S4 of the #GlobalHealthMatters podcast.
Share your ideas for S5 via our listener survey 👉 https://tinyurl.com/GHM-Listener-Survey
Share your ideas for S5 via our listener survey 👉 https://tinyurl.com/GHM-Listener-Survey
Reposted by Seye Abimbola
Thanks to Maebh Ní Fhallúin for this powerful reflection on ethics and justice on S4 of the #GlobalHealthMatters podcast.
Share your ideas for S5 via our listener survey 👉 https://tinyurl.com/GHM-Listener-Survey
Share your ideas for S5 via our listener survey 👉 https://tinyurl.com/GHM-Listener-Survey
October 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM