Structural Racism and Supporting Black Lives — The Role of Health Professionals

Police Brutality and Black Health: Setting the Agenda for Public Health Scholars

“…This requires critical self-consciousness so faculty and practitioners become comfortable with the language and concepts of antiracist praxis and naming racism and White supremacy. 24 We must also hold our institutions, programs, and departments of health accountable to centering at the margins and deliberately taking the perspectives of marginalized groups. 24,25 Confronting ourselves and the institutions that pay us is uncomfortable-for us, our collaborators, the administration, and our students.…”

“…24 We must also hold our institutions, programs, and departments of health accountable to centering at the margins and deliberately taking the perspectives of marginalized groups. 24,25 Confronting ourselves and the institutions that pay us is uncomfortable-for us, our collaborators, the administration, and our students. But discomfort can produce the best scholarship.…”

Research Apprenticeship and Its Potential as a Distinct Model of Peer Research Practice

“…” By offering an effective path to regular employment, the apprenticeship model of peer research can contribute to balance differentials in educational accomplishment, employment, and earnings. Thus its adoption by the publicly funded research infrastructure can promote the deliberate dismantling of structural racism within the biomedical sciences, as called for by Hardeman(37). Since structural racism is a potent mediator of health inequality(38,39), a resultant benefit of health equity would accrue.…”

Revisiting Primary Care's Critical Role in Achieving Health Equity: Pisacano Scholars' Reflections from Starfield Summit II

“…For this to happen, Dr. Denise Rodgers asserted that a paradigm shift-one where medicine views systemic and racial injustice as a health issue 58 -must occur first. She proposed that an initial step in this paradigm shift is critical self-consciousness 58 of unjust structures in health care and society; educational tools such as implicit association tests could help providers identify prejudices 59 and mitigate the impact of those biases at the patient level.…”

“…For this to happen, Dr. Denise Rodgers asserted that a paradigm shift-one where medicine views systemic and racial injustice as a health issue 58 -must occur first. She proposed that an initial step in this paradigm shift is critical self-consciousness 58 of unjust structures in health care and society; educational tools such as implicit association tests could help providers identify prejudices 59 and mitigate the impact of those biases at the patient level. 60 Summit participants expressed this self-awareness to be a necessary precursor to applying a broader institutional equity lens that could eventually encourage antiracism training in medical education, equitable hiring policies within institutions, and analysis of intersectional identity data in research to gradually dismantle the determinants of equity.…”