COVID-19 has both highlighted and amplified historical inequality in the health outcomes for BAME in the UK. This episode explores intersecting factors including discrimination in the NHS, the white bias in medical education and decolonising the curriculum. Open University Postgraduate researcher Natalie, is joined by author of 'Anti-Oppressive Practice in Health and Social Care' Viola Nzira and Dr Jenny Douglas, Senior lecturer in Health Promotion at The Open University.
More on Ella’s story…
http://ellaroberta.org/
Further reading
Anti-Oppressive Practice in Health and Social Care
Viola Nzira and Paul Williams
Inside the Ivory Tower: Narratives of women of colour surviving and thriving in British academia
Deborah Gabriel and Shirley Anne Tate
Mind the Gap: a handbook of clinical signs on black and brown skin
Malone Mukwende, Margot Turner and Peter Tamony
Critical Race Theory in Education
David Gillborn et al
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
Micheal Marmot
Decolonising the Mind
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Decolonising the University
Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, Kerem Nişancıoğlu
Sources
ITV News - Coronavirus thrives on inequalities and being BAME is major risk factor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ-1ocufR7g&t=9s
ITV News - Frontline ‘discrimination’ in virus outbreak may be factor in more BAME NHS staff deaths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__UAPaiO0jk
ITV News - Ethnic minority leaders in NHS on what needs to change to keep BAME health workers safe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfGHD0u0JmE&t=70s
BBC Stories - Why are black women 'five times more likely to die in childbirth'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twBQtqoPKvQ&t=76s
House of Commons
Dawn Butler
Kemi Badenoch
