News and Updates:

• Join us for our first teach-in of the year on Vaccine Apartheid scheduled for November 2nd, 2022 from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. PT!
• We will be hosting our first campus forum of 2022, Imagining Decolonization and the Health Sciences, on October 26th from 3:30-5 p.m. with Jay Zussman, Rupa Marya, Alexis Cooke, and Kara Zamora. 
• Meet the new REPAIR Postdoctoral Scholars, Dr. Norlissa Cooper and Dr. Ree Botts!
• We have published our Resolution Paper on Medical Reparations, which we encourage you to read.
• The REPAIR Project was invited by UCSF Department of Surgery to present at their weekly Grand Rounds. A recording of that presentation as well as resources and links to studies described in that presentation can be found here.
• Read about what we did in the first year of the REPAIR Project.
• If you have any suggestions on what we could be doing differently or better, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]

What is The REPAIR Project?

The REPAIR Project is a three year strategic initiative designed to address Anti-Black Racism and augment Black, Indigenous, People of Color voices and presence in Science and Medicine and healthcare. "REPAIR" is an acronym for REParations and Anti-Institutional Racism, which provides the unifying theme behind this project.

We recognize that long-standing racial inequities in health, health care institutions and scholarship are a result of structural violence and systemic racism. Through the REPAIR Project, we seek to open conversation and promote efforts to rectify and eliminate these problems.

Critical Race theorists remind us that discussions of injustices experienced by Black Americans continue to distill and serve as a guide for addressing racial injustice for other groups. Our initiative starts the conversation with themes emergent from the Black Lives Matter Movement and works outward to problems that are nested in larger institutional medical and health care structures, including race and cultures of carcerality, and the implicit racial biases of scholarly practices of science, medical research and clinical practice.

Strategic Annual Themes

• Year One: Medical Reparations
• Year Two: Medical Abolition
• Year Three: Decolonizing the Health Sciences

Read more about our project and each annual theme. 

Get involved

If you are interested in getting involved, please join a working group by filling out this form to indicate your interest and we will be in touch shortly. If you would like to be involved in some other capacity (e.g. joining our steering committee or our advisory council), please send us an email at [email protected].

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