Agnes Agyepong, parent engagement programme manager at Best Beginnings and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Maternity Voices Partnership Chair discusses why Black women are not engaging in research and what can be done to change this?

What are data and technology? How do they impact Black lives in our health systems?

We were often taught to look for symptoms, such as rashes, in a way that I knew wouldn’t appear on my own skin.'

Interviews with diversity managers and internal data obtained by Recode indicate that Black Amazon employees are promoted less frequently and are rated more harshly than non-Black peers.

Actor David Harewood's BBC documentary explores why people of colour are more likely to die from Covid-19.

Racism is a systemic issue that pervades every aspect of life in the United States and around the world. In recent months, its corrosive…

Centre for Critical Race and Digital Studies. List of publications, books, reports and videos regarding the intersection of race & digital/data/tech.

Machine learning programs trained with patients’ own reports find problems that doctors miss—especially in Black people. Full study here: https://go.nature.com/3pnOwWP

EU countries continue to avoid collecting data on ethnic minorities and ignore persistent problems they face.

Birthrights is convening an inquiry into racial injustice in maternity care, led by an expert panel with barrister Shaheen Rahman QC as Chair.

Childbirth rights group supports examination into disproportionate health outcomes

Disparity with white women shows need for action, doctors say, despite slight improvement in mortality rate

Branches of Co-op in the south of England have been using real-time facial recognition cameras to scan shoppers entering stores. § See US based studies on FRT which shows the technology can be unreliable for black people, especially black women.