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Ferdinand Mukumbang

@mukumbang.bsky.social

Implementation Scientist in Global Health

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Decolonizing Global Health: A Critical Realist Perspective This insightful work uses a critical realist perspective to unpack the colonially informed culture, structures, and mechanisms which exist across global health institutions, offering a vision for radi...

One critique of the agenda to decolonize global health is that it lacks a philosophical/theoretical foundation. In this book, I used the Critical Realist meta-theory to unpack the colonized nature of Global Health and possibilities of its decolonization. www.routledge.com/Decolonizing...

20.12.2025 05:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Good Morning Everyone 😊☕🌤️ Have a Great Monday and Start to a New Week 🫶

09.06.2025 12:23 — 👍 3126    🔁 207    💬 59    📌 8
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We formulated an indigenous realist evaluation as a research paradigm for enhancing the global health decolonization agenda. This is a methodological reflection piece, and we would like others to build on it. hashtag#decolonization hashtag#Indegenousresearchmethods hashtag#realistevaluation

08.06.2025 19:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

What a read! As a proponent of open systems and complexity conceptualization in health policy and systems research, I really enjoyed this one.

08.06.2025 16:33 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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NEW Opinion published in PLOS Global Public Health

A critical juncture in global health: Leveraging historical institutionalism to examine PEPFAR dependency and inform the development of self-reliant public health systems

28.04.2025 21:17 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

by Alison Wiyeh, @pkomba.bsky.social, Samuel Akombeng Ojong, Charles S. Wiysonge, Bih Moki-Suh, Patricia Sadate-Ngatchou, and @mukumbang.bsky.social

28.04.2025 21:17 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Mechanism-based theorizing as a possible approach to addressing the duality of contextualization and generalizability. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

16.04.2025 10:35 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

Thank you Trish. This is incredible coming from you.

16.04.2025 10:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Balancing realist review outputs with the needs of policymakers and practitioners Abstract. A realist review is a theory-driven approach to synthesizing evidence based on the realist philosophy of science. Realist reviews are conducted t

Realist reviewers, here's a banger of a new paper by a South African group whose work I've only just become aware of. Good bit of philosophy to chew on if you've time. But also seeking to make RR more practical. Enjoy! #healthpolicy

academic.oup.com/heapol/artic...

20.02.2025 09:35 — 👍 101    🔁 33    💬 6    📌 4

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