Addressing inequities in health for Black Canadians

To continue the fight against racism in health care, we must ensure that Black students have training in the health professions with a curriculum that includes race-specific health information.

Structural and systemic racism in medical education and the delivery of health services has had a detrimental effect on the health of Black Canadians, write Catherine Carstairs and Françoise Baylis. Pexels photograph by Gustavo Fring

Opinion

BY CATHERINE CARSTAIRS, FRANçOISE BAYLIS

April 22, 2026

Black people have lived in Canada for a long time. They first came as slaves, as Loyalists after the American Revolutionary War, and as refugees using the Underground Railroad. Following changes to immigration policy that had long prevented Black people from migrating to Can...

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