Collective Action For Race Equity In Health and Social Care (CARE-HSC)

We aim to significantly advance race equity in health and social care through implementing a bold programme of research to dismantle structures generating and maintaining racial discrimination and harassment in our systems and models of care provision. Using participatory, qualitative and quantitative methods, we will focus on individual, group, community and organisational level experiences of formal care providers within the health and social care workforce, including those needing care themselves, and informal (unpaid) carers. Across all projects, we will spotlight mechanisms within racialised systems of care provision that allow inequities to persist. We will utilise our integrated crosscutting themes to co-create concepts of care; to generate innovative methods and new data; to bring those most affected closer to policymaking; and to build sustainable global capacity in race equity. Across our work, we will use co-production and reflexive approaches to generate and challenge new and existing theoretical paradigms, creative methods, and reproducible tools for mobilising and empowering stakeholders. Among our goals are advancements in knowledge, a more inclusive evidence-base and new expectations for a contract of care that disrupts the impacts of racism and elevates caring roles and anti-racism practices within healthcare systems.