Guided by the values of healing, community, and justice, the Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine is an interdisciplinary hub - community, a research epicenter, and a dialogue space. We center around publishing and uplifting perspectives related to healing, social justice, and community activism, envisioning a new medicine and public health praxis.
Equal Treatment Includes brief online modules on the role of race in medicine.
Image Credit: Creator: Marta Shershen | Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto
Re-Centering Medical Education: A Social Justice Resource List: Throughout history, the field of medicine has taught its students to pathologize bodies deemed as Other. As we begin to confront these lineages, many people remained pushed to the edges of priority. In reality, those who are commonly viewed as marginal to society represent a major core of the American patient population. This resource list asks us to re-center those who are seen as distinct, as special cases—people of color, queer and transgender/non-binary folks, people with disabilities, etc.—and place them at the forefront of our minds and practice as future or current physicians. We share this document with the claim that the following topics, issues, and histories are not supplementary, but rather fundamental to the study of medicine.
The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) provide the following statement regarding systemic racism in contemporary medicine: "SGIM’s vision is a just system of care in which all people can achieve optimal health. As a professional society of general internists, our members witness the direct effects that systematic racism has on our country’s healthcare systems and populations. As long as black and brown lives continue to be oppressed– this vision cannot be realized. A just system of care demands a just humanity:" (SGIM, 2023). Click on the video above to explore the work SGIM is doing to encourage substance change, push for advocacy, and create a more just delivery of medicine
American Hospital Association (AHA) talks in conjunction with community leaders from Minneapolis in the wake of George Floyd's murder, reckoning with systemic racism, and other key topics.
From the linked video: Dr. Richard Garcia is a pediatrician in Stockton, California. He received his medical degree from University of Illinois College of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Dr. Garcia and his colleagues have woven together a series of personal and emotional essays that highlight the inequalities that continue to plague us and significantly contribute to our national disease and economic burden. (Garcia, 2023)
Click on the above image to explore data from the CDC regarding health trends, current disparities in access and outcomes, among other key data points.