{"id":303,"date":"2023-03-10T08:43:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T16:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=our_fellows&#038;p=303"},"modified":"2025-06-30T11:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:28:42","slug":"desmond-jumbam","status":"publish","type":"our_fellows","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/fr\/our_fellows\/desmond-jumbam\/","title":{"rendered":"Desmond Jumbam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Desmond is a Ghana-based health policy consultant whose pointed critique of neocolonialist thinking in global development \u2013 \u201cHow (Not) To Write About Global Health\u201d, published in the BMJ Global Health journal \u2013 went viral on the Internet. His ironic approach to deeply serious problems has earned him a reputation as a humorist, but he sees nothing funny about the lack of accountability in global health. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to tolerate when you see the dangers firsthand. I felt an obligation to speak up because these [behaviors] have a direct impact on the lives of vulnerable people and allow injustices to persist,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","focus_area":[95],"expertise":[107,111,117,135,125],"class_list":["post-303","our_fellows","type-our_fellows","status-publish","hentry","focus_area-health","expertise-health-systems-strengthening","expertise-infectious-diseases","expertise-neglected-tropical-diseases","expertise-nutrition","expertise-vaccines"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our_fellows\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our_fellows"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/our_fellows"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"focus_area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/focus_area?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expertise?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}