In this statement, written by Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh on behalf of the NCCDH team, the NCCDH calls for action regarding the ongoing structural racism demonstrated in anti-Black police violence. This action demands that the public health sector transforms its institutions in the short and long term to be fully committed to ending racial injustice.
In this blog post, Senior Knowledge Translation Specialist Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh explores how the NCCDH has sought to incorporate reconciliation in our organizational practice.
In this blog post, Senior Knowledge Translation Specialist Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh shares key messages from two articles on racism, knowledge production and research.
In this blog post, Knowledge Translation Specialist Dianne Oickle reflects on her experiences as a white woman moderating a workshop on racism in public health partnerships.
This piece is a reflection by Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh, Senior Knowledge Translation Specialist on the NCCDH racial equity organizational change experience. Her intention is to discuss some of the tensions, challenges, shifts and insights that have surfaced through the change process.
NCCDH Scientific Director Connie Clement discusses the NCCDH’s process for undertaking a rapid organizational audit and designing a strategy to become more intentionally anti-racist.
In this blog post by NCCDH Program Manager Faith Layden and NCCDH Scientific Director Connie Clement, the authors discuss the protocols and resources used to promote racial equity in the organization’s hiring processes.
This blog post is part of a series on an anti-racism initiative at the NCCDH. The post is a personal reflection authored by an NCCDH staff member and is focused on her experiences of racism as a Black woman, intersections between settler colonialism and colonialism experienced elsewhere and reflections on relationships with Indigeneity.
Our staff team at the National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health (NCCDH) is engaged in a long-term initiative to become anti-racist, in part by engaging in staff readings and guided discussions. This blog post describes our group conversation process and the sessions we held between June 2017 and January 2018. See the companion blog post, “NCCDH staff becoming anti-racist through informed dialogue: 1 of 2,” for an introduction to this blog post.
In the summer and fall of 2016, the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) initiated an all-staff process to become more anti-racist. My first “Becoming anti-racist” post from March 2017 describes the NCCDH’s intention to hold monthly learning discussions and introduces the circle way method that we adopted. My more recent entries report on our discussions and the resources we used to help us learn.
