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For the first time, people in Lithuania living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners would have structured access to enjoy arts and creative practice in art museums.

Around the world, the Black Lives Matter movement is unravelling long-held beliefs and offering a golden opportunity for us to learn from each other.

Imagine a world where all people feel free to share their stories, fairness reigns and everyone benefits from optimal health. Through the fellowship, three passionate health care professionals from thousands of miles apart – India, Nigeria and the United States – found themselves in a classroom and immediately recognised their shared passion for children’s health. The Fellows believe the support and resources they receive from the program fellowship, the wider Atlantic community, and the Atlantic Institute reinforces the importance of working together to address health inequities: “Nothing for us, without us!” 

For more than 200 years, the United States has counted the population once a decade for the express purposes of defining political representation and allocating federal resources. As stipulated by Article 1, Section 2, clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution: For the government to function the people must be counted.

Maureen Sigauke, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, and a social justice and labor activist based in Zimbabwe, took part in the Atlantic Institute's Blog and Op-Ed Workshop on Sept. 9, 2020. She has written this blog about learnings from the session led by Sarah Anderson. 

Fiona Walsh is an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of the Architect of Ireland.

It is an invitation for you to play your role in today’s global economy by contributing more to your flourishing, as well as the flourishing of your fellow humans, the other human beings around us, and the living earth itself.

Over 300 participants, including 23 Atlantic Fellows, attended a virtual convening organized by Lance Louskieter and Shehnaz Munshi, between Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 2020 under the title: 'Decolonial thought and African consciousness for socially just health systems: An imaginative space'. Their event was part of the Health Systems Africa Regional Convening 2020.

Sebabatso Manoeli, our Senior Director of Strategic Programmes, is the host of the Race Beyond Borders podcast series. The Nelson Mandela Foundation recently sat down with her to find out more about the goals and aims of this new dynamic series.

At a time when coalition building is more crucial than ever, our Associate Director Patronella Nqaba sat down with 2019 Atlantic Fellow Wilneida Negron, Ph.D., to talk about how Black and Latinx communities can work together to build a more equitable future.

Along with more than six million people, they suffer from Parkinson’s disease, a brain disorder that progressively disrupts specific brain networks and causes problems with movement—such as shaking, stiffness, and difficulty with walking—as well as varied cognitive symptoms, such as attention and memory challenges.

Dealing with policy-makers goes hand in glove with most campaigns for social justice, writes Christopher Choong Weng Wai, but this path is littered with moral hazards. What do we leave out of our advocacy strategies when we focus on reaching the ears of “the right people”? What counts as evidence, and who determines impact? What trade-offs do we make, and whose voices go unheard?

When the saga of a Black American woman’s hair misadventures became a social media sensation, Irene Wakarindi couldn’t bring herself to laugh. TikTok star Tessica Brown’s “hair that went wrong” is a sobering reminder of the pain that is intimately bound up with persistent prejudices about Black women’s bodies

When Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, the precursor to Black History Month in the United States, he was concerned with the way societal anti-Blackness combined physical violence with the violence of dehumanising Black people by erasing their origins, narratives and knowledge, to further disenfranchise them politically.

"A crisis within a crisis.” That's how Dr. Uche Blackstock of the Center for Health Equity described the COVID-19 pandemic on NPR last June.

Meanwhile, “manels” – all-male “expert” panels – remain ubiquitous in coronatime, and surveys by civil society organisations, such as Care’s recent report “Where Are the Women?”, show that “Local women’s rights and women-led organizations and leaders are not being included in decision making around the humanitarian response, or receiving their fair share of funding.”

COVID. ACTION. IMPACT.

The ethical argument for mandatory COVID-19 vaccination of health workers