Areas of Work

How We Work

Centric Lab collaborates with partners in the ecosystem to identify key health justice areas that merit attention of science. Over a 5 year period we investigate the aetiology of the disease/disorder, understand its roots, how it is embedded into systems, and develop healing pathways with community workers and organisers.

What Our Role Is

Our role is to support the health justice ecosystem by adding a layer of science to advocacy. We produce a broad spectrum of accessible research and identify partners to help scale the work out.

  • Diseases & Structural Violence

    Non-Communicable Diseases are no accident. They correlate highly to exposure to pollution, contaminants, and marginalisation. Our work explores how structural violence through inadequate healthcare, social care, and legal systems act as pathways to disease development.

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  • Cities & Systems

    High numbers of diverse people are overwhelmingly forced to live in cities, this puts stress on the built environment and systems that govern and design it. We explore how these intersections become determinants of health.

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  • Data for Health Justice

    Data is a powerful tool for justice. However, it can easily be manipulated and entrench inequities. This area of work explores how data intentionally used for health justice considers the human, societal factors. 

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  • Indigenous Health

    Indigenous, Land-Kinned, and subaltern Peoples continue to experience Imperialism through land grabs, ecocide, and exclusion. This results in health inequities from homelands to urban communities they can be forced into.

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  • Climate & Nature

    The abuse of Nature and natural systems is leading to changes in global climates. This is putting pressure on existing systems we rely on for food, housing, and clean air. We explore how this dynamic influences population health.

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Partner With Us

We work ecosystemically. We recognise that the pathway to the abolition of systems that create health injustices cannot be done alone. We always welcome approaches for partnerships with like-minded organisations to help drive our collective missions forward.

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Updated: Resourcing Radical Knowledge Infrastructures

An update to our 2024 propositional paper from earlier this year. Resourcing radical knowledge infrastructure means to create the financial, cultural, and equitable pathways for people, groups and movements to create, surface, resurface, and amplify knowledges without restriction, in order to build community power.

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Vital Signs - Another World is Possible

Science Gallery London’s exhibition, Vital Signs: Another world is possible brings together artists, designers and researchers to explore these relationships and how the health of the natural world - from our waterways to our atmosphere and the ocean floor - is intimately connected to our own health and wellbeing.   

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What would an NPPF look like from an Ecological Justice framing?

Taking on an Ecological Justice approach to the NPPF requires a foundational shift to the role and motivations around planning and the relationship with land in the UK.

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