'Labouring' on the frontlines of global health research: mapping challenges experienced by frontline workers in Africa and Asia. Issue 12 (2nd December 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nkosi, Busisiwe; Van Nuil, Jennifer Ilo; Nyirenda, Deborah; Chi, Primus Che; Schneiders, Mira Leonie
• Is Part Of: Global public health. Volume 17:Issue 12(2022)
• Page Start: 4195
• Page End: 4205
• Publication Date: 2022-12-02
• Subjects: Body work -- frontline workers -- everyday ethics -- research ethics -- Africa -- Asia; Public health -- Periodicals; 362.105
• DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2022.2124300
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-1692

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Drawing on the reflections and discussions from a special session at the 2021 Global Health Bioethics Network summer school, this paper has summarised the key challenges faced by Frontline Workers (FWs) across research sites in Africa and Asia in performing the everyday 'body work' entailed in operationalising global health research. Using a 'body work' lens, we specifically explore and map key challenges that FWs face in Africa and Asia and the physical, social, ethical, emotional, and political labour involved in operationalising global health in these settings. The research encounter links with wider social and economic structures, and spatial dimensions and impacts on the FWs' performance and well-being. Yet, FWs' 'body-work' and the embedded emotions during the research encounter remain hidden and undervalued.