Reducing stigma is vitally important for a range of reasons including improved health, social, and economic outcomes. Despite significant policy focus, little progress has been made in achieving reduction of stigma. We cannot afford to do more of the same. Novel approaches are needed that are scalable for implementation across health care settings. Sustainable systemic change requires tackling stigmatising conditions, policies, and practices across the health system and across all areas of stigma.
This project aims to tackle stigmatising conditions, policies, and practices across the health system through the development and trial of a world-first approach to stigma reduction that provides a scalable and sustainable framework for health systems. This project is based on unifying the logic of a universal precautions approach to stigma reduction.
Multiple methods are being used through several streams of work, including:
The project’s approach will align and leverage health system precepts of equity, access, and quality to produce a scalable stigma reduction implementation and training package for managers and policy-makers to apply to diverse health settings.
The project will produce a number of papers and we will share them as we go.
Project staff
Project contact
Professor Kate Seear and Professor Carla Treloar lead this project.
Project supporters
The project is a collaboration with the Drugs, Gender, and Sexuality Research Program and funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health.