Anti-Racism Resources

A framework from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Framework from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Framework from the Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry. Thirteenth Annual Report to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the Congress of the United States. December 2016.

Kaiser Family Foundation Issue Brief. May 2018.

This meta-analysis reviewed the literature focusing on the relationship between reported racism and mental and physical health outcomes.

A framework from the CDC. Conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play affect a wide range of health risks and outcomes. These conditions are known as social determinants of health (SDOH).

Healthy People 2020 highlights the importance of addressing the social determinants of health by including “Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all” as one of the four overarching goals for the decade.

This paper describes a shift in medical education away from pedagogic approaches to stigma and inequalities that emphasize cross-cultural understandings of individual patients, toward attention to forces that influence health outcomes at levels above individual interactions. It reviews existing structural approaches to stigma and health inequalities developed outside of medicine, and proposes changes to U.S. medical education that will infuse clinical training with a structural focus.