臺大公衛學院為加強宣導本院教師之學術成果，進而提升本院國際能見度，由李柏翰老師之撰寫下列文章投稿至ASPPH Friday Letter.
Health Apartheid during covid-19: A Decolonial Critique of Racial Politics between Taiwan and the WHO
該文目前已刊登於 ASPPH Friday Letter, November 25, 2022
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Abstract
While racism has spread rapidly as the covid-19 pandemic disrupted global health systems, this study focuses on the case of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the first African Director-General of the who, and his allegations of racism against Taiwan, which has been excluded from the who for decades. This study theorises ‘health apartheid’ as a conceptual framework to critically analyse three forces—global racial politics, imperial logics of global health, and state-centrism of international institutions—that relate to Taiwan’s exclusion in various ways. We argue that Tedros’s allegation was instrumentalised to overshadow the systemic, structural, and institutional racism reproduced by the who during the competition between Chinese and American hegemonies. This study shows that the pandemic exacerbates health apartheid against unrecognised nations, like Taiwan, when global solidarity is desperately needed. We call for a systematic transformation of the who to resist racist state-centrism and pursue a people-centred approach to global health governance.
