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Highly recommend @TimothyWSchwab piece in @thenation unpacking how the links between @gatesfoundation @IHME_UW and @TheLancet shape global health data. Luckily, not all scholars have succumbed to the “Bill Chill”. See
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gates-covid-data-ihme/
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gates-covid-data-ihme/
. @marleetichenor and @devisridhar discuss the “metric partnership” between the WHO, the World Bank and the IHME and show how the Global Burden of Disease estimates gloss over the assumptions and knowledge gaps in their production
https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/4-35/v2
https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/4-35/v2
Manjari Mahajan @NewSchool_IA writes about the rise of the IHME in @Global_Policy and how “emerging data politics might be eroding the ability of poorer states to know and act upon their development problems on their own terms”. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-5899.12605
Colin Mather shows how the rise of the IHME casts doubt over the @WHO’s leadership of global health statistics, and challenges WHO Member States’ ability to engage with the results of the complex and computer-intensive modelling procedures used by IHME https://archpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13690-020-00458-3
. @jshiffma and @Yrshawar summarise critiques of the IHME-led GBD studies and the consequences of an uneven playing field. They argue for seeing global health metrics as a public good, and call for greater accountability https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30416-5/fulltext
Back in 2014, @jshiffma used the examples of IHME’s health metrics leadership and the emergence of the Lancet as a global health actor to show the importance of studying epistemic and normative power in global health http://www.ijhpm.com/article_2918_607.html
In 2017, @DPBehague and I showed how the Gates Foundation and IHME contributed to a preference for mathematical models of global estimates over local data, skewing attention away from efforts to strengthen national health information systems @CPHjournal https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09581596.2016.1259459
Back in 2009, @dcmccoy11 et al. argued that the @gatesfoundation's global health grant-making (including grant to create IHME) “neglects support for the civic and public institutional capacities of low-income and middle-income countries” @QM_GlobalHealth https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60571-7/fulltext?code=lancet-site
“The longer we isolate public health's technical aspects from its political and social aspects, the longer technical interventions will squeeze out one side of the mortality balloon only to find it inflated elsewhere,” wrote @UofT historian A.-E. Birn 2005 http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)66479-3/fulltext
. @DrSophieHarman helps put debates about data politics in broader context, by unpacking the legitimacy problems of global philanthropy and rule drawn from private wealth in this thoughtful analysis of the @gatesfoundation https://brill.com/view/journals/gg/22/3/article-p349_4.xml?language=en
. @DukePress's "Metrics" edited by Vincanne Adams has many great discussions of “the accomplishments, limits, and consequences of using quantitative metrics in global health” from leading medical anthropologists
https://dukeupress.edu/metrics/
https://dukeupress.edu/metrics/
This recent @anthroencyclo entry by @marleetichenor provides a theoretical framework for the anthropology of metrics and a summarises how anthropologists have analysed “the social impact of enumerative practices” https://www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/metrics
. @LinseyMcgoey provides the first book-length analysis of the Gates Foundation's influence, both negative and positive, on global health and development. A must-read https://www.versobooks.com/books/2344-no-such-thing-as-a-free-gift
. @slerikson makes a strong case for "following the money" in a piece about the clandestine financial dealings at the core of philanthropic venture capitalism in global health, including that of @gatesfoundation
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/683271
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/683271
In 2015, @RuthLevine5 asked “is it healthy for global health to be so strongly influenced by organizations...that are outside of any intergovernmental framework and not subject to public accountability?” referring to @gatesfoundation & @IHME_UW
http://www.ijhpm.com/article_2976_616.html
http://www.ijhpm.com/article_2976_616.html
. @afejerskov is among few scholars to have done fieldwork inside the @gatesfoundation for this great @routledgebooks account of how it has established itself as a major political power, also outside of global health https://www.routledge.com/The-Gates-Foundations-Rise-to-Power-Private-Authority-in-Global-Politics/Fejerskov/p/book/9780367666750
