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25
Nov
2024
JCIHE Call for Proposals for Special Issue: Global Health, Politics, and Education in Africa

JCIHE Call for Proposals for Special Issue: Global Health, Politics, and Education in Africa

The Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education launched a Call for Proposals for the Summer 2026 Special Issue: Global Health, Politics, and Education in Africa. Guest editors are: Didier Jourdan, Chair holder UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Center on Global Health & Education; Carole Faucher, Affiliated researcher UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education & Lul Admasachew, Affiliated researcher UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education.

Papers in this special issue will expound on the United Nations Decade of Action for Sustainable Development. Articles should draw on concepts of “Health is Politics” within the African continent. In all regions, but particularly in Africa, higher educational institutions can be politicized irrespective of academic freedom being declared. Innovations in global health are also influenced by politics. This begins where fundings comes from and bibliometric inequalities in what is published, in what journals, and the influences of bibliographic colonialism. Critical and decolonial health and education are pertinent for emancipation. Political agendas are at an interplay within higher education with expression of diverse views and forms of knowledge.

This special issue invites contributions to submit empirical or theoretical articles pointing to the Pan African knowledge in global health, politics, and education that intersects with AIDS, mpox, pandemic prevention, that is largely defined by Western knowledge holders that influence how Global South academia presents knowledge to the general public.

Themes to be Explored:

  1. Pandemic Prevention Accord and ways to engage all stakeholders
  2. Education, vaccinations as politics
  3. Impact of AIDS and mpox education for community health
  4. Sexuality education
  5. Faith-based medicine
  6. Virtual platforms to uphold education within political agendas
  7. The otherness standpoint epistemology, health and politics
  8. Decolonization of knowledge: critical internationalization trends, innovation and agendas

Submit 500 word proposals to: lul2lul@yahoo.com or via the JCIHE website. Proposals are due by January 10, 2025, with full manuscripts due by May 15, 2025. All articles will undergo a double-blind peer review process and must follow the JCIHE guidelines.

Posted by Didier in News
19
Mar
2024
New study highlights the role of education in reducing adult mortality

New study highlights the role of education in reducing adult mortality

CHAIN and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) published a ground-breaking study in The Lancet Public Health highlighting education as a vital factor in reducing adult mortality across demographics.

Findings reveal that each extra year of education reduces mortality risk by nearly 2%, and that education benefits people of all ages and backgrounds. Those who completed six years of education had around 13% lower mortality risk, while 18 years of education resulted in a reduction of around 34%. Having had no schooling was shown to be as bad for your health as smoking 10 cigarettes a day.

Education provides a pathway to improving overall health, as it leads to better employment, income, and access to healthcare. The study emphasizes the need for global efforts to improve education access to interrupt the cycle of poverty and preventable deaths.

Read the article

Read the factsheet

The announcement on the EuroHealthNet website

Mirza Balaj, Claire A. Henson, Amanda Aronsson, Aleksandr Aravkin, Kathryn Beck, Claire Degail, Lorena Donadello, Kristoffer Eikemo, Joseph Friedman, Anna Giouleka, Indrit Gradeci, Simon I. Hay, Magnus Rom Jensen, Susan A. Mclaughlin, Erin C. Mullany, Erin M. O’connell, Kam Sripada, Donata Stonkute, Reed J.D. Sorensen, Solvor Solhaug, Hanne Dahl Vonen, Celine Westby, Peng Zheng, Talal Mohammad, Terje Andreas Eikemo, Emmanuela Gakidou (2024). Effects of education on adult mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Public Health, Volume 9, Issue 3, e155-e165. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00306-7

Posted by Didier in News