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Alana Helberg-Proctor is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), affiliated with the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and the Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body programme group. Her research focuses on systemic racism in healthcare, the legacy of slavery in medical practices, and decolonizing medicine. She critiques the use of racial categories in clinical decision-making and health policies, emphasizing how such practices perpetuate health disparities. Her work spans historical analyses of medical racism and contemporary issues like bias in pain management and LGBTQ+ asylum seeker safety.
Key projects include the Slavernij & Gezondheid initiative and the AISSR Impulse Grant-funded study on obstetric racism. She actively engages in public discourse through media interviews and keynote lectures, such as her talk at the NHG-Wetenschapsdag 2024 on bias and diversity in Dutch general practice. Her research highlights the need for inclusive healthcare frameworks that move beyond reductive racial categorizations.
Helberg-Proctor collaborates with institutions like KU Leuven and publishes widely on topics including medical ethics, health policy, and the socio-scientific production of ethnicity in research. She advocates for evidence-based approaches to address systemic inequities in healthcare access and treatment.
