OUR VISION
To achieve equitable and welcoming global surgery research.
OUR MISSION
To create a platform to educate and empower our learners.
TERM 1. FOUNDATIONS
Building a knowledge base for informed discussion
Ensure all PGSSC Core have a baseline knowledge of important events in the history of colonialism and how that lead to subsequent histories of racism, genocide, and historical and modern slavery. Introduce how these events and ideologies impacted people individually and on a more systematic level.
TERM 2. THE WHY
Understanding relevance and application to personal context
Objectives: Demonstrate the intersection of racism and global surgery; Explore how other identities intersect with racism; Discuss how these barriers contribute to health inequities and how we can overcome them in our work.
TERM 3. RESOURCES FOR ACTION
Learning to make personal and professional change
Objectives: Decontrusct structural racism; Further unpack whiteness and how colonialism has supported the prioritization of white culture and supremacy; Strategize methods to avoid perpetuation of these ideas in our work.
TERM 4. NEXT STEPS
Addressing persistent gaps and challenging complacency
Objectives: Decontrusct structural racism; Further unpack whiteness and how colonialism has supported the prioritization of white culture and supremacy; Strategize methods to avoid perpetuation of these ideas in our work.