[Correspondence] Decolonising implementation science: Southeast Asian perspectives (opens in new tab)

Christopher G Kemp and colleagues1 offer seven principles for decolonising implementation science grounded in Indigenous leadership from the USA, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Australia. Writing from southeast Asia, we welcome their discussion on sovereignty, relational accountability, and community-defined evidence. However, we are compelled to raise a concern—treating one colonial configuration as a universal template risks reinstating the epistemic hierachies decolonisation seeks to dismantle.