Anti-racism and Diversity

The New England Journal of Medicine

Beyond a Moment - Reckoning with Our History and Embracing Antiracism in Medicine

Dr. Kelly Knight, along with Dereck W. Paul, Jr., M.S., Andre Campbell, M.D., and Louise Aronson, M.D. examine the history of antiracism in medicine in The New England Journal of Medicine. "To go beyond declarations and move forward with fighting racism in medicine, we must understand the racial biases in our responses to past and present public health issues and plot an ethically and structurally different path to a new future."

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Imagining Medical Reparations

Imagining Medical Reparations

The REPAIR Project at UCSF hosted a campus forum on October 30, 2020 to discuss the possibilities and potentialities of medical reparations. Speakers include Nadia Gaber, PhD, MD Candidate, UCSF; Jovan Scott Lewis, PhD, UC Berkeley; Antoine Johnson, PhD Candidate, UCSF; Michelle Guy, MD, UCSF; and John Templeton, author of Our Roots Run Deep: The Black Experience in California.

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The REPAIR Project

The REPAIR Project

The REPAIR Project is a three-year initiative designed to address Anti-Black Racism in science and medicine. Dr. Aimee Medeiros, Dr. Vincanne Adams, and Dr. Ian Whitmarsh provide departmental faculty leadership on this cross-campus collaboration with School of Medicine leadership and students on the advisory board.

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A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine: Online Syllabus by Antoine Johnson

History of Health Sciences PhD candidate Antoine Johnson, M.A., is a co-author of an extensive syllabus on anti-black racism in medicine available on Black Perspectives, published by the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS).

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Structural Competency

Structural Competency: New Medicine for Inequalities

Dr. Kelly Knight co-organized a three-part webinar training course that brings research on social determinants of health to clinical interventions and prepares clinical trainees to act on systemic causes of health inequalities and inequities.

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