Decolonising Our Healthcare

How Decolonising can help us reimagine healthcare provision.

In this talk, Dr Annabel Sowemimo author of Divided: Racism, medicine and why we need to decolonise healthcare will outline how our shared colonial history has shaped the healthcare system we have today . Through Decolonising movements that shift power and seek epistemic justice can we achieve greater health equity.

From the blurb:

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all too aware of the urgent health inequalities that plague our world. But these inequalities have always been urgent: modern medicine has a colonial and racist history.

Here, in an essential and searing account, Annabel Sowemimo unravels the colonial roots of modern medicine. Tackling systemic racism, hidden histories and healthcare myths, Sowemimo recounts her own experiences as a doctor, patient and activist.

Divided exposes the racial biases of medicine that affect our everyday lives and provides an illuminating - and incredibly necessary - insight into how our world works, and who it works for.