Summer 2026 Special Issue

2025-02-10

Call for Proposals for Summer 2026 Special Issue:

Global Health, Politics, and Education in Africa

Send proposals to Guest Editors: Didier Jourdan, Chairholder UNESCO Chair and WHO Collaborating Center on Global Health and Education; Carole Faucher, Affiliated researcher UNESCO Chair for Global Health and Education & Lul Admasaachew, Affiliated research UNESCO Chair for Global Health and 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 at: https://www.ojed.org/jcihe/about/submissions. 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: https://www.ojed.org/index.php/jcihe/about/submissions.