The Lancet Commission on
Racism & Child Health
Commission Chairs
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Delan Devakumar
Professor of Global Child Health, Institute for Global Health, UCL
Pediatrics, public health, migraiton, racism, violence
What we do
The relationship between our health, our identities, our environments, and the sociopolitical contexts we face are complex. Racism, xenophobia, and discrimination inform and propel these relationships, resulting in health inequtiies for those who experience minoritisation. Children are not exempt from this process, yet more must be understood to parse apart these relationships so that we can promote their right to health.
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The Lancet Commission on racism and child health seeks to do just that. Taking a global approach, our group is comprised of experts diverse in thought, background, geographical expertise and location, institution, and more. Learn more about our group below.
Stay Tuned
We are currently mapping our scope of work and will release additional information about our project this Autumn. To stay tuned, be sure to subscribe to the Race & Health Quarterly, our social media plaforms, and check this page for updates.
Meet the Steering Committee
Olivia Walker
NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Public Health; Campaigner
Environmental, inequalities, public health, abolition, organising
Dan Mitchell
Researcher, UCL
Anthropology, migration, global health, climate, youth
Noah Patterson
Senior Research Fellow, UCL
Gender, violence, global health, data science
Tess Anderson
Researcher, UCL
Global health, climate, ublic Health, migration, VAW
Meet the Commissioners
Rob Aldridge
Professor of Public Health Data Science at the Institute of Health Informatics at UCL
Public health, data science, social care, substance use, migration
Iheoma U. Iruka
Founding Director of the Equity Research Action Coalition at FPG UNC Chapel Hill
Anti-racist, anti-bias research practice, health equity for children
Seung-Sup Kim
Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Seoul National University
Public health, occupational health, disability
Arianne Shavhisi
Senior Lecturer in Ethics at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Gender, race, migration
Laia Becares
Professor of Social Sciences and Health at King's College London
Population health, sociology, equality
Ayesha Kadir
Senior Humanitarian Health Advisor at Save the Children
Paediatric emergency medicine, migration, conflict, violence
Priscila de Morais Sato
Adjunct Professor at the School of Nutrition of the Federal University of Bahia
Nutrition, food systems, food practices and culture, traditional communities
Báltica Cabieses
Director of the Centre of Global Intercultural Health, Faculty of Medicine Clínica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo
Social inequities, migrants, health systems
Rajat Khosla
Director of the International Institute on Global Health (UNU-IIGH),
Global health, social justice, gender, policy, sustainable development goals
Javier M. Rodgríguez
Professor
Politics, economics, psychology, public health