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Resources that break barriers and improve outcomes.
“13th Amendment”
Source: YouTube, documentary
Description: “Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.”
“After Surgery, Black Children Are More Likely to Die Than White Children”
Source: Scientific American, article
Description: “A study of nearly 200 U.S. medical centers found that even apparently healthy kids suffer racial disparities in complications associated with surgery.”
“America is Failing Black Moms During the Pandemic”
Source: Vox, article
Description: “The pandemic is making the maternal health care crisis worse. It doesn’t have to be this way.”
“America to Me”
Source: Starz, documentary
Description: “Academy Award nominated filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Life Itself) examines racial, economic and class issues in contemporary American education in the multipart unscripted documentary series "America to Me."”
“An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter”
Source: TED Talk, Interview
Description: “Born out of a social media post, the Black Lives Matter movement has sparked discussion about race and inequality across the world. In this spirited conversation with Mia Birdsong, the movement's three founders share what they've learned about leadership and what provides them with hope and inspiration in the face of painful realities. Their advice on how to participate in ensuring freedom for everybody: join something, start something and "sharpen each other, so that we all can rise."
“Anti-Racist Primer: What Can I do?”
Source: University of Michigan, Tool Kit
Description: “In the wake of the devastation rippling through our community by the killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and so many more before them many are asking, “What can I do?”"
“Black Lives in Neurosurgery: A Three-part Webinar Series”
Source: Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Webinar
Description: “The impact of racism, bias, and discrimination within and outside of the healthcare system has led to increased concerns around healthcare equity. The CNS is honored to partner with expert thought leaders to bring you this new webinar series."
“Body Language: Race, Christianity, and Restoration in America with Anita Phillips and Christine Caine”
Source: Youtube, Video
Description: “An intimate and educational conversation on the intersection of race, Christianity and restoration between Dr. Anita Philips and Christine Caine."
“Black Women’s Manifesto”
Source: Duke University Library, Pamphlet
Description: “A pamphlet distributed by Third World Women's Alliance."
“The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America”
Source: Amazon, Book
Description: “In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation―that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation―the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments―that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day."
“COVID-19, Racism, and Racial Disparities in Kidney Disease: Galvanizing the Kidney Community Response”
Source: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Article
Description: “Racial disparities in health and racism in the lived experiences of Black Americans have come into sharp focus in the context of the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and increased awareness of brutal attacks on Black persons.”
“Cultural Competence Training”
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Course
Description: “This program will help behavioral health professionals to become more aware of their cultural identity and the cultural identity of their clients to increase their ability to engage, assess, and treat clients from diverse backgrounds.”
“Diagnosing and Treating Systemic Racism”
Source: The New England Journal of Medicine, Article
Description: “As many physicians have left their comfort zones to care for patients with Covid-19–associated respiratory failure, the role of the medical profession in addressing this life-defining need has rarely been clearer.”
“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion That Matter”
Source: The New England Journal of Medicine, Article
Description: “Too often, academic medical institutions’ idea of addressing institutional and systemic racism begins and ends with naming a titular diversity-equity-inclusion chief. Every so often, they tout their racial and ethnic diversity, not mentioning that it resides primarily in janitorial and food services, while historically underrepresented groups remain largely absent on the path to full professorship and division chiefdom.”
“How to be Anti-Racist By Ibram X. Kendi”
Source: www.ibramxkendi.com, book
Description: “Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. Instead of working with the policies and system we have in place, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.”
“I Fought Two Plagues and Only Beat One”
Source: New York Times, Article
Description: “As the head of a major hospital, I fought the coronavirus. As a black man, I fight racism.”
“Just Mercy”
Source: Just Mercy Website, Book and Film
Description: ““Just Mercy” is based on the powerful and thought-provoking true story of young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Jordan) and his history-making battle for justice.”
“Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present”
Source: Book, Amazon
Description: “The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book that will stir up both controversy and long-needed debate.”
“Medical school students’ Hippocratic oath asks doctors to combat racism, misinformation”
Source: Article, CNN
Description: “In a new Hippocratic oath written by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Class of 2024, incoming students pledged to fight the spread of misinformation and racial injustice. The oath names Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery..”
“Race differences in prevalence of chronic kidney disease among young adults using creatinine-based glomerular filtration rate-estimating equations”
Source: Article, National Library of Medicine
Description: “Despite a higher incidence of end-stage renal disease (stage 5), blacks have been shown to have the same or lower prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD stages 3 and 4). Current creatinine-based glomerular filtration rate (GFR)-estimating equations may misclassify young, healthy blacks.”
“Racial bias skews algorithms widely used to guide care from heart surgery to birth, study finds”
Source: Article, Stat News
Description: “Decision aids that U.S. physicians use to guide patient care on everything from who receives heart surgery to who needs kidney care and who should try to give birth vaginally are racially biased, scientists reported on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.”
“Racism in Health Care Isn’t Always Obvious”
Source: Article, Scientific American
Description: “Health care workers are constantly thinking about how to improve the quality of care being delivered to our patients. However, we rarely talk about our own biases toward our patients—let alone racial bias. We usually aren’t even aware of them. But they exist, and in fact, when it comes to our patients, evidence suggests that us doctors have the same level of bias as the wider population. Hence, it’s time we address them head on.”
“Seeing Patients”
Source: Book, Amazon
Description: “If you’re going to have a heart attack, an organ transplant, or a joint replacement, here’s the key to getting the very best medical care: be a white, straight, middle-class male. This book by a pioneering black surgeon takes on one of the few critically important topics that haven’t figured in the heated debate over health care reform―the largely hidden yet massive injustice of bias in medical treatment.”
“Stroking Out While Black—The Complex Role of Racism”
Source: Article, JAMA Neurology
Description: “For the first time in history, a diverse, global coalition came together to protest injustice in the societal treatment of Black lives. Perhaps it was the collision of George Floyd’s horrific death with the disproportionate and egregiously high death rates and coronavirus disease 2019 infection rates within communities of color in the US that fueled this movement. Of note, precursors of change, such as the diversity, inclusion, and equity initiatives being spawned in all major sectors (economic, education, health), hold out hope for meaningful progress. This Viewpoint highlights the complex role of racism in stroke and suggests a framework for understanding its effects.”
“Systemic Racism and Health Disparities: A Statement from Editors of Family Medicine Journals”
Source: Article, The American Academy of Family Physicians
Description: “Today there is a renewed call to action for family medicine, a specialty that emerged as a counterculture to reform mainstream medicine,9 to both confront systemic racism and eliminate health disparities. This effort will require collaboration, commitment, education, and transformative conversations around racism, health inequity, and advocacy so that we can better serve our patients and our communities..”
“Systemic Racism as a Public Health Issue”
Source: Podcast, Follow the Data
Description: “As more data about the impact of the pandemic becomes available, it is increasingly clear that the coronavirus is affecting the most vulnerable and disadvantaged populations in the U.S. the hardest.”
“The Giving Voice to Mothers study: inequity and mistreatment during pregnancy and childbirth in the United States”
Source: Article, BioMed Central Ltd.
Description: “Recently WHO researchers described seven dimensions of mistreatment in maternity care that have adverse impacts on quality and safety. Applying the WHO framework for quality care, service users partnered with NGOs, clinicians, and researchers, to design and conduct the Giving Voice to Mothers (GVtM)–US study.”
“The Health Care System Has the Black Community in a Choke Hold”
Source: Article, California Healthcare Foundation
Description: “It was the Black woman’s third trip to the emergency department because she was feeling short of breath. She was starting to panic. She knew the COVID-19 death toll was climbing and that it was far worse for Black people than white people, and yet the doctors told her to go home again. But this time she pleaded, “If you all don’t admit me to the hospital, I’m going to die. I can’t breathe.”
This is the story told by Sheila Young, MD, physician scientist and director of the free COVID-19 testing site on the campus of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) in South Los Angeles, during an online community forum on the effects of COVID-19 on under resourced communities.”
“We Need to Talk About an Injustice – Bryan Stevenson”
Source: Video, TED Talk
Description: “In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America's unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.”
“Where Do We Go From Here?”
Source: Interview, OWN Spotlight
Description: “In response to the continuing civil unrest in America following the tragic murder of George Floyd, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network present a two-night special, OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here?, which features Oprah Winfrey as she speaks directly with Black thought leaders, activists and artists about systematic racism and the current state of America.”
“Who Me, Biased?”
Source: Miniseries, New York Times
Description: “What is implicit bias? NYT/POV's Saleem Reshamwala unscrews the lid on the unfair effects of our subconscious.”
“Why choosing an OB/GYN is so tough if you’re a Black woman”
Source: Article, Today
Description: “As a mom, dietitian and Black woman living in the United States, I am acutely aware of the pervasive race-related bias in health care that places my children and me in harm’s way. Being Black while seeking out empathic, equitable and unbiased medical care takes attention — and intention.”
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