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Reverse innovation
Reverse innovation, power imbalances, language, and avoiding cultural appropriation
BMJ 2019; 367 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l7003 (Published 17 December 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;367:l7003
- Amali U Lokugamage, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist1,
- Christine Douglass, independent researcher2,
- Faye Gishen, consultant physician1,
- Molly V Fyfe, senior teaching fellow3
- 1UCL Medical School, London WC1E 6DE, UK
- 2London, UK
- 3Medical Education Research and Innovation Centre, Imperial College London, London W6 8RP, UK
- a.lokugamage{at}ucl.ac.uk
We thank Skopec and colleagues1 for their essay on reverse innovation and note that it could herald an age of increased cultural humility for the global north and assist with dissipating prejudices towards innovations from the global south. Bringing in new ideas from “outside” requires disrupting entrenched power and value systems around knowledge. …
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