Decolonizing Health Knowledge Project

The Decolonizing Health Knowledge (DHK) Project was created in response to an urgent global need: to confront and transform the colonial foundations of health knowledge and the health industrial complex. Across the world, communities of the global majority—particularly Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), women, and LGBTQIA+ communities—continue to experience profound health inequities. These inequities are tied not only to access and resources, but to long histories of medical racism, exclusion, and unequal treatment embedded within biomedical systems.

Decolonial approaches to health emphasize the importance of understanding how world histories of colonialism, power, and knowledge production continue to shape present-day healthcare systems and outcomes. DHK exists to shift how health knowledge is produced, taught, and practiced—grounding health education in justice, context, lived experience, and community wisdom.