Healthcare Reparations Cooperative

The Healthcare Reparations Cooperative works to create an independent system for health and healing that incorporates systemic and interpersonal reparations for society’s most oppressed communities while using a collective cooperative structure that allows for co-ownership of the intellectual property created. It also is a tool for community driven research that takes the form investigating research questions posed by the communities most impacted by health inequities who might not otherwise have access to public health scholarship.

In addition to the work of creating an alternative healthcare model, HRC engages in public health narrative change and community driven research. Community driven research takes the form of reconfiguring the power structures held in traditional academic investigation and giving it back to the communities most impacted by health inequities.