Healthcare Workers for Health Justice


WHAT IS THIS PROGRAMME?

A political education co-learning programme designed to develop health practitioners’ analysis and praxis of health justice. Key topics within the programme include, but are not limited to, Indigeneity, disability justice, colonialism, and environmental justice. 

This programme draws upon abolitionist principles, recognising that systems of capitalism, colonialism and other forms of oppression are designed to destroy health and exploit life. They cannot be compatible with health justice. Abolition asks us to dismantle and disrupt those systems, and to simultaneously imagine, build and collectively seed systems of care, regeneration and healing. 

About the Programme

LATEST OUTPUT

A Health Declaration

During the summer of 2024, psychologists, doctors, medical students, and other healthcare professionals from racialised experiences gathered to co-create methods for weaving justice into their practices. This is their Declaration and proposition for a world that rooted in healing rather than harm. As you read, you become part of the Declaration.

What Participants Are Saying


“It feels like I have so much more language to describe things. It has informed my politics and campaigning further and pushed me to think about alternative healing infrastructures more often. It has radically influenced my teaching. Personally, the course has given me the space to slow down and to imagine when maybe I was very busy with doing - this has been really helpful. I’ve seen the power of gentleness and care in spaces like these first-hand and continue to take this forward in my life/practice.”

“I think it has given me a newfound confidence in my knowledge and ability to advocate for my patients and my community which I will take forward in my clinical work, particularly when I can see that my patients are suffering from mental ill health because of wider socio-policito-cultural-environmental factors.”

Programme Outputs

A selection of works from this area of work.

If you want to read more, go to the Research Library.

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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