Hello, I’m Anna Ruddock. I’m the founder of Equitable Health Futures. I work with partners to transform how resources, knowledge, and power shape health and disability justice.

I’m a feminist, an anthropologist, a funding expert, a strategist, and a specialist in disability justice for people with chronic energy-limiting health conditions. I have worked for the UK government, in academia, for a global research funder, for small local charities, and a large international NGO. I am also a founding member of the disabled people’s organisation Chronic Illness Inclusion.

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I created Equitable Health Futures to bring together my experience across philanthropy, research, advocacy and policy to work more deliberately on health and disability justice at a time of deep global inequality.

Health justice doesn’t mean everyone being well at all times. We are fragile, mortal beings. It means that no one should live a more painful or limited life because of where they live, their income, race, gender, sexuality, class, or disability. It means access to the conditions that make life liveable and meaningful — safe housing, education, healthcare, income, dignity, loving relationships, and connection to the natural world.

Inequality can feel overwhelming, but it is not inevitable. By pooling our resources, knowledge, and power, we can dismantle the structures that produce harm and exclusion and work towards ways of living and caring that allow everyone to thrive.