Thursday, 29 April 2021, 5.30 – 7pm
About the Event
Structural racism has increased mistrust and hesitancy to engage with the medical system among Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities. Historical examples of unethical experimentation and medical mistreatment of Black people has heightened suspicion of endeavours to promote public health."COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has now evolved, and is being driven by anti-vaxxers who have weaponised the concerns of BAME communities based on genuine historical events by adding others relating to baseless claims that vaccines could, for example, violate religious laws or affect fertility" (Morgan 2021). Structural inequalities based on class, race, misinformation, and medical mistrust is harming the BAME community. Specifically, understanding and interrupting medical racism has become an urgent priority.
The University of Oxford and the University of Kent BAME.BME Staff Networks are pleased to invite you to a virtual public health community forum Medical Racism: Protecting Ourselves, Our Families and Our communities. Come and hear from a panel of esteemed expert medical practitioners and scholars.
About Panel Experts
Dr Winston Morgan
Reader in toxicology and clinical biochemistry, Medicines Research Group, University of East London.
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Dr Mohammed Sakel
Director NeuroRehabilitation, Consultant Physician, Director Research & Development, East Kent Hospital University
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Dr Roberta Babb
Chartered Psychologist, Registered Clinical Psychologist, Registered Forensic Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, Media Psychologist, Life Coach and Organisational Consultant, The Hanover Center
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