谁的知识才是重要的? 公平,认识正义,以及改革传染病研究文化
Hanna-Tina Fischer1, Augustina Koduah2
1Charité Center for Global Health, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Epidemics
|January 7, 2026
概括
传染病流行病学研究往往排除了定性和本地知识,特别是来自全球南方研究人员的知识. 资金,培训和出版方面的改革对于公平有效地应对疫情至关重要.
科学领域:
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 全球健康 全球健康
- 研究 研究 文化 文化
背景情况:
- 传染病流行病学研究优先考虑生物医学和定量方法,边缘化定性,上下文和本地知识系统.
- 现有的研究层次结构使基于地理,性别,语言和学科的不平等现象持续存在,尤其影响全球南方的研究人员.
- 资金,培训和出版规范强化了该领域的认识和结构性排斥.
研究的目的:
- 检查研究文化和结构因素如何导致传染病流行病学中的认识和结构排斥.
- 分析这些排斥性做法对研究议程制定,作者权和决策的影响,以加纳的COVID-19应对为例.
- 倡导以认识论和分配正义为基础的以公平为中心的改革,以改变研究文化.
主要方法:
- 这是一篇观点论文,分析传染病流行病学中的现有结构和实践.
- 它借鉴了加纳的COVID-19应对案例,以说明依赖外部开发的流行病学模型的后果.
- 分析重点关注资金优先事项,学术培训和出版规范.
主要成果:
- 在加纳的COVID-19应对期间,依赖外部开发的流行病学模型反映了当地研究人员在作者,议程制定和决策方面更广泛的边缘化.
- 这项研究强调了主流研究文化如何系统地排除定性,上下文和局部信息化的方法.
- 在研究参与和知识认可方面的不平等是沿着地理,性别,语言和学科线路进行的.
结论:
- 改变传染病研究文化需要在资金,培训和出版方面进行以公平为中心的改革,强调认识论和分配正义.
- 更公正,更包容的研究文化在道德上是必不可少的,对抗疫情的有效性和合法性至关重要.
- 解决结构性和认识的排斥对于推进全球卫生公平和改善公共卫生结果至关重要.
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