Scepticism, Activism and Healthy Communities: A Centric-HS Pilot Project

We are thrilled to announce a new and exciting project with the London-based community organisation Centric, funded by the King’s Together scheme at King’s College, London and led by Shaun Danquah, Paul Addae with HS PIs Caitjan Gainty and Agnes Arnold-Forster. The project aims to better hear, know, and understand the sceptical voices of Brixton, a predominantly black, South London community. It intends to model a way of doing research into health scepticism, where the sceptic and her community remain firmly at the centre. This is not an attempt to develop greater trust for healthcare within the community; it instead takes as its aim understanding what a sceptical community can offer to conversations about where healthcare has gone wrong and how it can be made right. In other words, the goal is not to change the community, but to change healthcare. To get a taste of the kind of work Centric does around the areas of medical scepticism especially, we recommend this excellent blog post by Shaun Danquah and Marcus Tayebwa. Please go to the Centric-HS project tab for more about the project.