Building Back Better from Below: Harnessing Innovations in Community Response and Intersectoral Collaboration for Health and Food Justice Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
Funders involved: ESRC; SSHRC; FAPESP
This project will take an action research approach to analysing the trajectories, outcomes and sustainability of grassroots innovations and collaborations that have emerged since March 2020 among activists and front-line service providers working with marginalised and racialised communities in three socially diverse and economically dynamic but unequal cities: São Paulo (Brazil), Toronto (Canada) and Brighton (UK).
Lead Principal Investigator: Alex Shankland (a.shankland@ids.ac.uk), Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK
Principal Investigators:
Vera Schattan P. Coelho (veraspc@uol.com.br), São Paulo, Brazil
Suzanne Sicchia (suzanne.sicchia@utoronto.ca), Department of Health & Society, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada