Tackling racism in UK health research

BMJ. 2022 Jan 18:376:e065574. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-065574.

Richard Antony Powell^{1

2}, Chidi Njoku^{1

2}, Ramyia Elangovan³, Ganesh Sathyamoorthy^{1

2}, Josephine Ocloo^{3

4}, Sudhin Thayil⁵, Mala Rao^{6

2}

¹ Ethnicity and Health Unit, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London, London, UK.
² Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
³ Centre for Implementation Science, Health Service and Population Research Department, King's College London, London, UK.
⁴ NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South London at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁵ Centre for Perinatal Neuroscience, Department of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁶ Ethnicity and Health Unit, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London, London, UK mala.rao@imperial.ac.uk.

Abstract

Richard A Powell and colleagues set out the barriers and solutions to eliminating inequalities embedded in the UK health research system