Working as a student nurse in east London in the Eighties, Donna Kinnair, then in her twenties, got an early lesson in the relationship between race, racism and health.
Conditions specific to certain ethnic groups in the local population were little understood by her fellow healthcare professionals. “I had very little information, very little data, on things that were affecting some of the populations, things like thalassaemia, things like sickle cell anaemia,” she told me in a recent video call from her apricot-coloured living room.
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