The unprecedented public health crisis, pandemic and economic turmoil caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus devastated families and communities, as it spread fear and uncertainty across the country, creating dire circumstances in some communities of color. While painful for thousands upon thousands, this adversity has become a catalyst for improving health equity that can usher in a new era of better health in communities of color.
Dr. Camara Jones MD, MPH, PhD, a member of the Healing ARC Campaign’s Advisory Council, has been a leading advocate for developing race conscious approaches to eliminate institutional racism in America’s healthcare system. Dr. Jones is the Leverhulme Visiting Professor in Global Health and Social Medicine School of Global Affairs King’s College London and Past President of the American Public Health Association. The Healing ARC campaign proudly presents some of her outstanding work, as we urge health care administrators, and the public and private sectors, to implement solutions that will eliminate racism in their health systems and improve the quality of life in their communities.
Commentary The Healing ARC (acknowledgment, redress, and closure) is a care delivery model developed in response to documented racial inequities in...
EqualHealth Equal Health’s Campaign Against Racism (CAR) condemns recent white supremacist attacks on Anti-racist agenda for medicine. CAR is in...
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We are writing on behalf of racially minoritized equity champions to ask for your support in protecting those committed to promoting antiracism in...
BY LASHYRA "LASH" NOLEN In this op-ed, LaShyra ‘Lash’ Nolen explores the persistence of medical racism and importance of anti-racism in medicine....
MSNBC Phillip Martin, senior investigative reporter for GBH News, talks with Rachel Maddow about a neo-Nazi group protesting Brigham and Women's...
UVA Medical Center Hour Bram Wispelwey, MD, MPH Associate Physician, Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Instructor in...
Annual Review of Public HealthIn recent decades, there has been remarkable growth in scientific research examining the multiple ways in which racism...
AAMC News From systemic racism to economic disadvantage, Black men face numerous obstacles in their path to medicine. At the AAMC’s annual meeting,...
Mary T. Bassett, M.D., M.P.H., and Sandro Galea, M.D., Dr.P.H. There has not been a single year since the founding of the United States when Black...