Overcoming Epidemics in Transnational Black Communities Research Cluster is funded through the initiative of Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Clusters by the Vice President Office for Research and Innovation to develop an interdisciplinary research agenda for understanding the link between inequality and epidemics in Black communities as well as their local initiatives to manage and overcome major disease outbreaks.
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The Overcoming Epidemics in Transnational Black Communities Research Cluster seeks to establish an innovative interdisciplinary research agenda on the relationship between structural inequalities and ‘epidemics in Black communities’ — broadly defined as persistent and significant disease outbreaks experienced by people of African descent. The cluster is premised on the understanding that Black people's health and well-being require coordinated efforts to address intersecting structural and social conditions creating unequal access to biomedicine to produce health inequities. It also recognizes that Black people have, amid historical and structural inequalities, always demonstrated an ability to innovate solutions for the prevention, response, and recovery from epidemics, even as their knowledge systems remain marginalized in health and social sciences.
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Pattern and Drivers of Epidemics
Structural Justice and Epidemics
Health and Wellbeing among Transnational Black Communities
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Black scholars form new interdisciplinary research cluster
A group of professors affiliated in various ways with ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ’s African Studies Program join forces to create a unique, interdisciplinary research cluster focusing on adaptive knowledge, response, recovery and resilience in transnational Black communities.
