Wellcome Trust’s anti-racism initiatives a failure
UK’s largest non-governmental science funder is ‘still an institutionally racist organisation’, admits director Jeremy Farrar
‘Wellcome is still an institutionally racist organisation’, admitted the science funder’s director Jeremy Farrar last week. He apologised that they had not acted ‘with the urgency required’ following Wellcome’s commitment to becoming an anti-racist organisation two years prior. This came after the funder published an independent review of its anti-racism initiatives that concluded Wellcome is perpetuating and exacerbating systemic racism.