Focusing in on life course processes to understand how racism patterns ethnic inequities in health

Ethnic inequalities in health are entrenched and persistent in the UK and elsewhere. This seminar explores the role of racism, experienced over the life course, in structuring ethnic inequalities in health. Anchored around key tenets of life course theory, this presentation will discuss findings from multiple studies that centre racism as the root cause of ethnic inequalities, exploring life course mechanisms that pattern stark ethnic inequities in later life.

About the speaker

Laia is Professor of Social Science and Health in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. Her research interests are in studying the pathways by which the discrimination and marginalisation of people and places lead to social and health inequalities across the life course, with a specific focus on racism and heteronormativity as systems of oppression.