Grassroots Sickle Cell Activism

Join researcher Dr Grace Redhead for an exploration of the Sickle Cell Society archive, which documents decades of research, outreach and activism.

Grace will talk about how sickle cell anaemia has been dismissed by policymakers and health authorities as a “minority condition”, and the racist discrimination and neglect faced by people living with it.

Find out how a coalition of Black British patients, families and healthcare professionals challenged the NHS, lobbied government, built health services, and developed caring practices that centre Black health.

The talk will be facilitated by activist Dame Elizabeth Anionwu, who is Emeritus Professor of Nursing at the University of West London. In 1979 Elizabeth became the UK’s first sickle cell nurse counsellor.