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Anti-Racism, Inequity, and Implicit Bias in Health Care

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This guide contains links to informational resources related to issues of race, inequality, and implicit bias in medicine, medical education, and health care.​

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• Medicine and Public Health) on February 17, 2021.

• Black Cancer (with Jodi-Ann Burey)

  Cancer explores the stories behind the cancer journeys of everyday people of color. Host Jodi-Ann Burey weaves a narrative about race, health, and life and helps listeners discover the wisdom trauma can bring. As Burey explains: "With Black Cancer, I wanted to create something I wish I would’ve had during my own cancer journey. For over two years, I was a ‘strong Black woman’ whose mind and body felt weaker than it’s ever been. I felt alone. In between doctor’s appointments, medication adjustments and trying to understand myself as someone living with a chronic condition, I was just too broken, too hurt and too tired to find the community I desperately needed."

• Black Lives and Health Justice: Lessons from the Long Civil Rights Movement Part 1

  Lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Nelson, Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities & Health Studies in the School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Nelson articulates the connections between health justice and the Black struggle for equality in the US; describes how racial health disparities in the US today are the product of historical processes, including longstanding structural racism; and identifies key sites of action for health justice, beyond the clinical encounter.

• The Daily: A Life-or-Death Crisis for Black Mothers

  "Black mothers and infants in the United States are far more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than their white counterparts. The disparity is tied intrinsically to the lived experience of being a black woman in America."

• Engaging Communities to Address Latino Health Disparities

  Lecture by India Ornelas, PhD, Research Director, Latino Health Research Center, University of Washington.

• Health Disparities in Native Populations: Closing the Gap

  Lillian Tom-Orme (Diné), Ph.D., MPH, RN, FAAN, Research Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, discusses the various health disparities and their related social determinants of health in American Indian and Alaska Native populations and suggest ways to reduce/close the gap.

• HEAR (Healthcare inEquity And Racism) 2020 Sessions

  The HEAR (Healthcare inEquity And Racism) campaign is a student-created week-long series of speaker events and discussion groups. This series is intended to further educate students with an interest in medicine or healthcare on how racial disparities affect various areas of medicine, including but not limited to patient outcomes, access to care, and medical education. The HEAR series will also seek to provide preliminary tools to empower students to start advocating for equity at both in health settings and within their communities.​

• How Racism Makes Us Sick | David R. Williams [TED Talk]

  In this eye-opening talk, David R. Williams presents evidence for how racism is producing a rigged system -- and offers hopeful examples of programs across the US that are working to dismantle discrimination.

• Indigenous Knowledge to Close Gaps in Indigenous Health [TED Talk]

  Dr. Anderson DeCoteau, a Cree-Saulteaux physician, argues that health programs that are culture-based and use both western and Indigenous knowledge have the potential to be more responsive to Indigenous peoples and their rights than the status quo and could be the key to closing the gaps in Indigenous health.

• Population Health Challenges for Latinos in the U.S.

  Lecture by Alex Ortega, PhD, director of the Center for Population Health and Community Impact in the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University.

• Prioritizing Equity: Examining Race-Based Medicine

  American Medical Association panel discussion held on October 29, 2020. Health care leaders held a critical conversation on approaches to dismantling race-based medicine across clinical practice, education, and research.

• The Problem with Race-Based Medicine | Dorothy Roberts [TED Talk]

  Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine.

• Racial Health Disparities: How COVID-19 Magnified a Public Health Emergency

  In the season finale of “Beyond the White Coat,” David Skorton, AAMC president and CEO, and Malika Fair, MD, senior director of health equity partnerships and programs at the AAMC, discuss what forces are driving the disparities in health care access during the COVID-19 pandemic, how physicians can work to acknowledge and address racism against Black Americans, and what the academic medicine community can do to address institutional and systemic racism.

• Racism: A Public Health Crisis

  Round-table discussion held on January 20, 2021 sponsored by the Indianapolis Recorder and the Greater Indianapolis Branch of the NAACP featuring IUPUI professors Joseph Tucker Edmonds, PhD and Elizabeth Nelson, PhD, as well as the CEOs of IU Health, Community Health, and Eskenazi Health.

• Sawbones: The Black Panthers and Public Health

  "If you received the typical, white-centric education, you probably associate the Black Panthers only with violence and political protest. This week on Sawbones, we talk about their work in medical research advocacy and creating public health programs that sought to make life better for all black and oppressed people."

• Sickle Cell Disease: Invisible Illness, Enduring Strength

  This episode (56) of "This Podcast Will Kill You" focuses on the history of screening and treatment for Sickle Cell Disease in the United States and how this has lead to discrimination in treatment, funding dollars, and healthcare outcomes.

• The "Skinny" on Health Disparities among Asian Americans: Biological, Behavioral, and Social Determinants

  Lecture by Maria Rosario Araneta, Maria Rosario Araneta, Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego

• Social Determinants of Latino Health Disparities

  Lecture by Evelinn Borrayo, PhD, at the Colorado School of Public Health.

• The United States' Pre-Existing Conditions

  In this episode from the NPR podcast "Code Switch," Ed Yong explains how racial and class disparities have affected the COVID19 pandemic.

• What Academic Medical Centers Should Do to Become Antiracist

  Brigham and Women's Hospital Medicine Grand Round lecture delivered by Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH on the history of racism in medicine and what steps we must take to combat this in our modern day. Dr. Essien is a health services researcher and practicing general internist who conducts research on racial/ethnic health disparities.

• When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus

  This episode from the NPR podcast "Code Switch" discusses coronavirus-related racism and xenophobia against Asian Americans in the U.S.