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Challenges of researching racism in healthcare
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0664-1170
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Government.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1962-410x
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology. Skaraborg Institute for Research and Development, Skövde, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1670-2843
2025 (English)In: Journal of Critical Public Health, ISSN 3033-3997, Vol. 3, no 2, p. 85-91Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The unprecedented transnational protests following the killing of George Floyd highlighted the need to re-examine institutions that uphold various social injustices experienced by racialised minorities. Black Lives Matter protests thus created a serious reckoning with racism and facilitated global conversations. Against the backdrop of these protests, we evaluate our study of healthcare workers, exploring racialisation in Swedish healthcare including the design and implementation of an anti-racist initiative in healthcare education. We reflect on how the silencing of discussion around racism in Sweden led to difficulties in recruiting participants and the effect of the shift in public discourse following the Black Lives Matter uprising of 2020. The project was ultimately successful in recruitment and outreach to professional and regional authorities. However, this success is contrasted by the lack of structural change in embedding anti-racism as a core value in healthcare practice. We conclude by noting that conversations about anti-racism differ from implementing anti-racist practice in commissioning, evaluation, and service delivery.

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Critical Public Health Network , 2025. Vol. 3, no 2, p. 85-91
Keywords [en]
Racism, Anti-racism, Healthcare, Sweden, BLM
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Sociology (Excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)
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Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-570664DOI: 10.55016/ojs/jcph.vi.81527OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-570664DiVA, id: diva2:2009785
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Understanding racism in healthcare: Developing and implementing anti-racist strategies through shared knowledge production and evaluation, Swedish Research Council
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Swedish Research Council, 2016/04078Available from: 2025-10-28 Created: 2025-10-28 Last updated: 2026-04-15Bibliographically approved

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