With the African Studies program of LA&PS as the intellectual hub and The Tubman Institute as host, the Overcoming Epidemics in Transnational Black Communities Research Cluster aims to explore and interrogate the intersection between structural and social injustices that drive vulnerability and black communities’ experiences in mitigation, response, and recovery from severe epidemics –broadly defined as persistent and significant disease outbreaks. To this end, the cluster seeks to: (i) establish an interdisciplinary and multisectoral research agenda at York, (ii) collaboratively leverage and further develop a team comprising interdisciplinary research groups across York and beyond, (iii) collect and analyze data aimed to inform global health justice frameworks in line with traditional/modern knowledge systems, and (iv) identify and address the many pathways through which structural and systemic inequalities shape black communities’ experiences of epidemics, including socio-economic injustice, racial injustice and discrimination. 

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