The final conference statement declares that “health systems need to be reoriented to respond to people’s emerging health needs”, and that this process “should be led by citizens, and local and national governments rather than by external actors, and in line with the needs and priorities of communities and citizens”. Now these concerns need to be integrated into the praxis and priorities of the research community, or the phrases will remain empty and praxis will continue to be dominated by the current hegemonic discourse that legitimates injustice and inequity.

To the eyes of many, the Ebola epidemic was the dark background against which the collective failure of public health and health research became evident and undeniable, making the need for publicly owned health systems, nurtured and conceived by the people, as urgent as ever.


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