Tools for Teaching and Learning
- Racial Equity through Action and Learning"Racial inequities are not random; they have been created and sustained over time. Inequities will not disappear on their own, we all share responsibility for dismantling racism in our communities. The Racial Equity through Action and Learning: Laying the Groundwork summit aims to build capacity to advance racial equity and justice. We are utilizing the national best practice developed by the Government Alliance on Race and Equity.
The Racial Equity Through Action and Learning virtual summit was originally held on Oct. 30, 2020. This session will discuss the historical and societal context that has led to systemic racial health inequities." - Introduction to Health Equity and Racial Justice"By grounding health equity work in a clear analysis of the root causes of inequities, we are better equipped to identify the strategies required to achieve health for all. This recorded webinar will serve as an introduction to exploring a racial justice and power framework as a way to center equity in organizational practices."
- Centering Black Bodies and Voices in the Public Health Response to the Black Maternal Health Crisis (On Demand-CE) is a Course Centering Black Bodies and Voices in the Public Health Response to the Black Maternal Health Crisis"Dr. Lynn Roberts will present an overview of the reproductive justice (RJ) framework and share her “notes from the field” on how the RJ movement is contesting and reimagining the public health discourse and response to racial disparities in maternal mortality and morbidity. In her address, she will present examples of the bold and unapologetic use of reproductive justice framing to ensure that Black mamas and Black births matter to all of us."
- What are Black Disability Studies"In the opening keynote of the Public Health Students of African Descent 32nd Annual Minority Health Conference, Dr. Theri Pickens presents key concepts of Black disability studies and it's difference from disability studies of other racial groups. Dr. Pickens addresses the impact of terminology when using words such as "disabled" and "impaired," and how the public health field can move beyond a basic understanding of disability to better comprehend the intersection of being Black and disabled."
- Advancing Racial Equity Webinar Series"Alarming disparities within the COVID-19 pandemic — such as higher hospitalizations and death rates among Black, Latino and Native communities — are sadly predictable and highlight the urgent need to address the root causes of health inequities. APHA hosted this webinar series to give an in-depth look at racism as a driving force of the social determinants of health and equity."
- MedEd Portal: Anti-racism in Medicine Collection"As a journal of health professions educational resources, it is our responsibility to name racism as a barrier to equity and to work toward dismantling systems of oppression within our profession through training and education. The new Anti-racism in Medicine Collection within MedEdPORTAL provides educators with practice-based, peer-reviewed resources to teach anti-racist knowledge and clinical skills, elevates the educational scholarship of anti-racist curricula, and aims to convene a community of collaborators dedicated to the elimination of racism within medical education."
- AMA: Historical Foundations of Racism in Medicine"Racism is a root cause of health inequities, differences that are avoidable, unnecessary, and unfair. Yet, many people, including physicians, are often unaware of the origins of race as a social construction and the emergence of scientific racism. As a result, false beliefs about biological racial differences continue to shape the way that health care is practiced. This interactive module takes learners though the historical social construction of race and the obstacles racism poses for the attainment of health and wellness."
- EqualTreatment: Race-based Medicine"We acknowledge that healthcare disparities are rooted in complex social and political histories that can be difficult to address in the clinic and operating room. Our vision is to form a surgical workforce that is representative of the patients we serve, equipped with the tools to combat racial inequality in our healthcare system."
- Interrupting Microaggressions in Health Care Settings: A Guide for Teaching Medical Students"To discuss the intent and impact of microaggressions in health care settings and how we might go about responding to them, we developed a workshop for third-year undergraduate medical students within a longitudinal undergraduate medical education diversity and inclusion curriculum."
- An Entrustable Professional Activity Addressing Racism and Pediatric Health Inequities"Deficiencies within education across the entire continuum and in our health care systems as a whole contribute to health inequities in unacceptable ways. [...] Competency-based medical education is one approach to addressing the deficiencies within graduate medical education and across the continuum by allowing educators to focus on the desired equitable patient outcomes and then develop an approach to teaching and assessing the tasks, knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to achieve the goal of optimal, equitable patient care."
Organizations, Websites, and Journals
E-books
Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by ISBN: 9781479896738Publication Date: 2015-12-11
Body and Soul: the Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination by ISBN: 9780816678754Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Strategies for deconstructing racism in the health and human services by ISBN: 9780199368914Publication Date: 2016
Uncertain Suffering: racial health care disparities and sickle cell disease by ISBN: 9780520259119Publication Date: 2009-08-03
The Power to Heal Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System by ISBN: 9780826521088Publication Date: 2016
Articles
- Modern Day Drapetomania: Calling Out Scientific Racism"The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted structural racism and health inequity in American society. As the nation reckons with its history of racial injustice, the medical and scientific communities need to directly confront the legacy of scientific racism in research, medical education, clinical practice, and health policies."
Published by Wayne State University's Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, MD, Dr. Latonya Riddle-Jones, MD, MPH, and Dr. Nakia Allen, MD - Impact of Race and Socioeconomic Status on Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19"Objective: To evaluate the association between patient sociodemographics and neighborhood disadvantage with frequencies of death, invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV), and intensive care unit (ICU) admission in patients hospitalized with COVID-19."
Published by Wayne State University's , Dr. Daniel Quan, MD, Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, MD, and Dr. Marcus Zervos, MD - African American Physicians and Organized Medicine, 1846-1968: Origins of a Racial Divide"Like the nation as a whole, organized medicine in the United States carries a legacy of racial bias and segregation that should be understood and acknowledged. For more than 100 years, many state and local medical societies openly discriminated against black physicians, barring them from membership and from professional support and advancement. [...] The effects of this history have been far reaching for the medical profession and, in particular, the legacy of segregation, bias, and exclusion continues to adversely affect African American physicians and the patients they serve."
- The Elephant in the Room: talking race in medical education"The deaths of black men and women while in police custody, rising anti-immigrant sentiment and rhetoric in high-income countries, and the continued health disparities experienced by Indigenous communities globally have brought race and racism to the forefront of public discourse in recent years. In a context where academic health
science centres are increasingly called to be ‘‘socially accountable,’’ ignoring the larger
social context of race and racism is something that medical education institutions can little afford to do" - Student-Led Efforts to Advance Anti-Racist Medical Education"In this article, the authors illustrate how student activism has reshaped medical education by highlighting examples of student-led efforts to advance anti-racist curricula at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine."
- Reducing Racial Inequities in Health: Using What We Already Know to Take Action"This paper provides an overview of the scientific evidence pointing to critically needed steps to reduce racial inequities in health. [...] This will include initiatives to raise awareness levels of the pervasiveness of inequities in health, build empathy and support for addressing inequities, enhance the capacity of individuals and communities to actively participate in intervention efforts and implement large scale efforts to reduce racial prejudice, ideologies, and stereotypes in the larger culture that undergird policy preferences that initiate and sustain inequities."
- Antiracism in Residency: A Multimethod Intervention to Increase Racial Diversity in a Community-Based Residency Program"This multimethod diversity initiative dramatically increased the proportion of underrepresented and other minorities in the residency program. The intervention succeeded due to the commitment of leadership and resources to addressing racism and making diversity a top priority on an institutional level."
- Responding and navigating racialized microaggressions in STEM"Here, we elaborate on a rationale for concrete actions to cope with and diminish acts of microaggressions that may otherwise hinder the inclusion of PEERs. We encourage Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) departments and leadership to affirm PEER scholar identities and promote allyship by infusing sensitivity, responsiveness and anti-bias awareness."
- Applying intersectionality to explore the relations between gendered racism and health among Black women"The purpose of this study was to apply an intersectionality framework to explore the influence of gendered racism (i.e., intersection of racism and sexism) on health outcomes. Specifically, we applied intersectionality to extend a biopsychosocial model of racism to highlight the psychosocial variables that mediate and moderate the influence of gendered racial microaggressions (i.e., subtle gendered racism) on health outcomes. [...] Findings of this study suggest that gendered racial identity centrality can serve a buffering role against the negative mental and physical health effects of gendered racism for Black women."