Overcoming Epidemics in Transnational Black Communities Research Cluster is a group of researchers who seek 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.
Our 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.
We also recognize 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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Understanding the Relationship Between Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19 Pandemic to Enhance the Intervention of the Council on Health and the Academy of Medicine (COSAMED)
Applicant: Gertrude Mianda
Co-Applicants: Mohamed Sesay, Sylvia Bawa, Godfred Boateng, Nathanael Ojong, Jude Kong, Solomon Boakye-Yiadom