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Author: Bryan Mukandi, PhD, MBChB, GCHEd, MA

Bryan Mukandi, PhD is a Lecturer on Medical Ethics at the University of Queensland. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland, and his Master of Arts with First Class Honors at the National University of Ireland in Galway. He also earned a Master of Arts degree from Queen’s University in Belfast, and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from the University of Zimbabwe. He is an academic philosopher, health humanities scholar and, once upon a time, he practiced medicine in a resource-poor, sub-Saharan African setting. His trans-disciplinary research aims towards gaining greater conceptual clarity around the well-being of people belonging to marginalized groups. The humanities are crucial to his work because of the creative possibilities, and maybe even the glimpse of freedom, that they offer.

Gathering on the Wrong Side of the Road: Critical Race Scholarship Across the Health Humanities

In a compelling response to our article, “Exploring How Racism Structures Canadian Physical Therapy Programs,” Dr. Bryan Mukandi offers an account of his critique of early drafts of the article, requested by the authors. He notes that his fear at the time was that the article “was an inadvertent reiteration of the idea that the inclusion of people of color in health disciplines is a matter of charity rather than justice.” Dr. Mukandi expresses the hope that more colleagues like these can gather with those “on the wrong side of the road” to foster dialogue and spur change.