The Virchow Prize: cementing commodification, coloniality and biomedical reductionism in global health?

Abstract

=> The Virchow Prize for Global Health tends to further legitimise the biomedical epistemic injustice in global health. => Awards in global health need to give due consideration to interdisciplinary nature, the systemic dimension and the coloniality in global health. => Rudolf Virchow’s legacy as a pioneer of social medicine would suggest reducing the power of the financial aristocracy with its philanthropic organisations.