What does this research mean for the field?

Inequalities in global health science are perpetuated by 'stickiness'—path dependencies in funding, infrastructure, and established consensuses that create systemic blind spots and prevent departure from the status quo. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.CHALLENGES_CONSENSUS.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine how inequalities in global public health scientific knowledge production are generated and reinforced through existing institutional and political-economic arrangements.

August 25, 2026Economy and SocietyOpen Access

‘Sticky knowledge’: The political economy of global health science in Uganda

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Ethnographic study reveals path dependencies and infrastructural blind spots in global health research, highlighting how funding systems reproduce knowledge inequalities.

Key Points

To examine how inequalities in global public health scientific knowledge production are generated and reinforced through existing institutional and political-economic arrangements.
Conducted multiscalar and multisited ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda.
Analyzed the interactions among research infrastructure, funding rationalities, pathogen selection, and geographic site choice.
Demonstrated that concentrating research infrastructures around specific pathogens and locales produces systematic blind spots in global health science.
Identified 'sticky knowledge'—path dependencies driven by technical infrastructure, funding priorities, and political consensus that prevent departure from established research priorities.

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Joshua Parker Allen (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8d49f7e8bd2413309bbd81 https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2026.2704348

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August 25, 2026Economy and SocietyOpen Access

‘Sticky knowledge’: The political economy of global health science in Uganda

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Authors

JAJoshua Parker Allen

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Overview

Ethnographic study reveals path dependencies and infrastructural blind spots in global health research, highlighting how funding systems reproduce knowledge inequalities.

Key Points

To examine how inequalities in global public health scientific knowledge production are generated and reinforced through existing institutional and political-economic arrangements.
Conducted multiscalar and multisited ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda.
Analyzed the interactions among research infrastructure, funding rationalities, pathogen selection, and geographic site choice.
Demonstrated that concentrating research infrastructures around specific pathogens and locales produces systematic blind spots in global health science.
Identified 'sticky knowledge'—path dependencies driven by technical infrastructure, funding priorities, and political consensus that prevent departure from established research priorities.

Cite This Study

Joshua Parker Allen (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8d49f7e8bd2413309bbd81 https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2026.2704348

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