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Charting a new course for inclusion, diversity, and equity in global health, PLOS Global Public Health IMAGE SOURCE- PLOS Authors include Julia Robinson, executive editor of PLOS Global Public Health, and editors-in-chief Catherine Kyobutungi and Madhukar Pai. Written by Catherine We are living in a critical period in the history of global public health as scholars, educators, practitioners, medical professionals, activists, and as people. The field of global health, which held great promise after the Declaration of Alma Ata to end systems of colonization, exploitation, discrimination, and unequal access to healthcare, has sadly replicated some of the same systems that have sustained the worst inequities over the past few decades. While low- and middle-income nations are left to deal with the toughest health concerns with the fewest resources, power continues to be concentrated in the hands of a few elite in a small number of high-income countries.gi and PLOS Global Public ...