About:
My name is Dielle J. Lundberg (she/her or ze/hir), and I am a health researcher in training and a multi-media artist. I examine disability, neurodivergence, structural ableism, and health equity in my scientific and artistic scholarship. Learn more about me.
Mission:
My personal and professional mission is to dismantle structural ableism in public health and healthcare and to "crip" health research, practice, and education from disabled, mad, and neurodivergent perspectives. I am also also interested in the ways that disabled people across communities are reimagining health systems and practices. As a disabled person in public health research, I view my personal role as meeting public health and health care stakeholders where they are at and inviting everyone on a journey to divest from ableism, reduce harm, and make progress towards equity. Learn more about my recent research and artistic projects and collaborations.
Research Approach:
I am a disabled, mad, and neurodivergent person. My perspectives on ableism are informed by my experiences with physical disability (Long Covid and chronic pain), as a psychiatrized person (bipolar disorder and PTSD), and as an autistic person with ADHD (adult diagnosis ADHD and adult discovery autist). I approach my scholarship from a perspective of lived experience and attempt to ground my research in theory emerging from disability studies and disability justice scholarship and advocacy. Some concepts that guide my research are:
Disability is a construct that exists in relationship to ableism and capitalism
Structural ableism is deeply intertwined with other systems of oppression
Many public health and health care professionals fundamentally misunderstand how a lot of disabled people experience their bodies and minds
A history of eugenics and institutionalization underlies public health and health care and continues to shape policies, institutions, health care practices, and measurement methods that steal autonomy from disabled people
Institutional ableism pervades science, research, and academia in ways that systematically exclude disabled, deaf, chronically ill, neurodivergent, and mad people and harm everyone
Read more about my research areas and my research approach, where I expand on each of these concepts and cite some of the disability studies and disability justice scholars behind them.
