Hello, I’m Anna Ruddock. I’m the founder of Equitable Health Futures: a research and strategy consultancy committed to the pursuit of health justice and inclusion.

I’m a feminist, an anthropologist of health and medicine, a communicator, a strategist, and a specialist in disability inclusion for people with energy-limiting health conditions and chronic illness. Over the last twenty years I have worked for the UK government, in academia, for a major health 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 as a way of bringing together my skills and experience to focus more intently on health justice and inclusion in an era of global emergency. I do this by working independently with clients, and by collaborating with allies to imagine and steadily realise a more inclusive world where everyone can thrive.

Health justice doesn’t mean everyone being well at all times. We are fragile, mortal beings. But it does mean that no person should live a more painful existence because of where they live, their income, their race/ethnicity, their gender, their sexuality, their class, or their disability/impairment. It does mean everyone having access to the conditions necessary to thrive, including decent housing, education, healthcare, and income; respect, loving relationships, and a closeness with the non-human natural world. It does mean dismantling the structures that perpetuate injustice and exclusion, and moving towards radically new ways of existing well that include everyone.  

Inequality is overwhelming but not insurmountable. We must pool our energy, and our power; collaborating to replace structural and systemic barriers with the conditions necessary for everyone to thrive.