How ‘pervasive’ is racism in health care? This B.C. researcher gathers the stories of Black, Indigenous people – CBC

Aug 14, 2025

Prince George, B.C., Calgary, Toronto, Thunder Bay, Ont., part of PhD candidate Ashley Wilkinson’s work

Ashley Wilkinson has found racism is an ongoing challenge in health-care settings in Canada, which is why the PhD candidate at the University of Northern British Columbia is getting the first-hand accounts of Black and Indigenous people who say they’ve experienced it.

For her doctoral work, Wilkinson, who’s also a research co-ordinator at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., has been interviewing unhoused people in various Canadian communities to learn if racism is impacting their efforts to get proper health care.

How ‘pervasive’ is racism in health care? This B.C. researcher gathers the stories of Black, Indigenous people – CBC

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