A selection of reflections in the forms of quotes from the programme organisers and participants.

During the summer of 2024, psychologists, doctors, medical students, and other healthcare professionals from racialised experiences gathered to co-create methods for weaving justice into their practices. This is their Declaration and proposition for a world that rooted in healing rather than harm. As you read, you become part of the Declaration.

This programme drew upon abolitionist principles. We recognise that systems of capitalism, colonialism and other forms of oppression are designed to destroy health and exploit life. They cannot be compatible with health justice. Abolition asks us to dismantle and disrupt those systems, and to simultaneously imagine, build and collectively seed systems of care, regeneration and healing.

This program is aimed at practitioners who want to develop their understanding and implementation of health justice, and explore together how health practitioners can become forces for collective liberation. Health justice is a deep and expansive lens through which we can contribute to various interconnected struggles.