Challenging prejudice: the chief medical officer and consultant psychiatrist

“People find it very hard to accept that there is structural or institutional racism—and even harder to call it out,” reflects chief medical officer and consultant psychiatrist Ananta Dave. “Then there’s a further step to take—doing something about it.”Dave, who has faced overt and indirect discrimination during her career, says “doing something about it” has become the core of her mission as a clinical leader.“I didn’t have that confidence or that voice for a long time, but I realised that for every person who was negatively impacting me or would discriminate against me or behave in a prejudicial manner, there was somebody who was willing to support me and say ‘I know you can do this so why don’t you apply,’ to have my back when things went wrong.”The number of allies were few, she says, “compared with the numbers of people who were prejudiced against me as a woman…
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