Race & Health
Race & Health is a collective working to reduce the adverse effects of discrimination that leads to poor health.
Project Summary
Race & Health is a collective of academics, artists, activists, policy makers, grassroots organisations and individuals, working to reduce the adverse effects of discrimination that leads to poor health.
To achieve this goal Race & Health has three inter-related streams of work: Academia, Education and Advocacy.
Academia
Through academic work, the collective will produce and publish the first global synthesis of how racism and discrimination affect health, centering racism as a health issue.
The work will outline how historical context affects health inequalities today, taking an intersectional approach from across the world and across all stages of life.
This framing of racism as a determinant of health, outlining mechanisms and solutions, is both novel and essential in addressing structural racism.
Education
Race & Health is developing curricula for education on how racism has impacted health for centuries and continues to do so today.
The content will be made for schools, undergraduate courses and postgraduate education for professionals and the collective will advocate that this education be both mandatory and mainstream, to inform those who are not already engaged and further the impact in addressing structural racism.
Advocacy
Advocacy efforts will be informed by a consultation process, which will include webinars, podcasts, policy briefs and educational sessions, and continued collaboration with grassroots organisation.
Key Project Information
Principal Investigator: Prof Delanjathan Devakumar
Dates: January 2020 - present (ongoing)
Location: Global
Project lead: Prof Delanjathan Devakumar
Partner: Various
Funding: Privately funded
Contact: contact@raceandhealth.org
Website: www.raceandhealth.org/
Videos
Is Migrant Health Racialised?
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed how the intersection of multiple forms of racialisation, discrimination and inequalities have devastating impacts on migrant health. This webinar, held in November 2020, unpacks how racialisation is a determinant of migrant health.