This Wellcome Trust-funded network is a community of scholars from a range of disciplinary and institutional backgrounds, whose research is broadly situated in the field of Black health. The network was born of a critical call to address issues related to racism in healthcare, particularly in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement which surfaced the urgency of attending to the disproportionate impact of healthcare crises and asymmetrical affordances of care in marginalised communi
From October 2020-September 2022, under the brilliant leadership of Principal Investigator, Dr Josie Gill, and Research Associate, Dr Amber Lascelles, based at the University of Bristol’s Centre for Black Humanities, the network ran a training programme for its members. The programme offered a series of virtual workshops led by artists and activists, deploying formats as diverse as creative writing exercises to archival work to critically interrogate how institutional and creative practices mediate ecologi
From September 2022, we are delighted to announce that the network will be hosted by Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities , coordinated by Network members, PI Dr Arya Thampuran (Assistant Professor at Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities) and Co-PI, Dr Shelda-Jane Smith (Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool).