Racism

A Rubric to Center Equity in Obstetrics and Gynecology Research

The Steering Committee for the Obstetrics & Gynecology special edition titled “Racism in Reproductive Health: Lighting a Path to Health Equity” formed a working group to create an equity rubric. The goal was to provide a tool to help researchers systematically center health equity as they conceptualize, design, analyze, interpret, and evaluate research in obstetrics and gynecology. This commentary reviews the rationale, iterative process, and literature guiding the creation of the equity rubric.

Batman, Samantha MD, MPH; Rivlin, Katherine MD; Robinson, Whitney PhD; Brown, Oluwateniola MD; Carter, Ebony B. MD, MPH; Lindo, Edwin JD. A Rubric to Center Equity in Obstetrics and Gynecology Research. Obstetrics & Gynecology 142(4):p 772-778, October 2023. | DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000005336

Read the article here: https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/fulltext/2023/10000/a_rubric_to_center_equity_in_obstetrics_and.4.aspx

On Racism: A New Standard For Publishing On Racial Health Inequities

Rhea W Boyd, Edwin G Lindo, Lachelle D Weeks, Monica R McLemore

From Health Affairs Forefront: …despite racism’s alarming impact on health and the wealth of scholarship that outlines its ill effects, preeminent scholars and the journals that publish them routinely fail to interrogate racism as a critical driver of racial health inequities. As a consequence, the bar to publish on racial health inequities has become exceedingly low. Read the full article here.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/racism-new-standard-publishing-racial-health-inequities

The Case for Health Reparations

Derek Ross Soled, Avik Chatterjee, Daniele Olveczky, Edwin G Lindo

From Frontiers in Public Health: The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on racially marginalized communities has again raised the issue of what justice in healthcare looks like. Indeed, it is impossible to analyze the meaning of the word justice in the medical context without first discussing the central role of racism in the American scientific and healthcare systems. Read the full article here.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.664783/full

Elimination of Race-based Medicine: A Call to Action

Shaquita Bell, Olanrewaju Falusi, Edwin Lindo

In a recently published American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement on eliminating race-based medicine, the authors write about “…the elimination of race-based medicine as part of a broader commitment to dismantle the structural and systemic inequities that lead to racial health disparities”. In this, we hear a cry for action. Read the full article here.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(22)00166-3/fulltext

Use of Race in Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines

CA Gilliam, EG Lindo, S Cannon, LO Kennedy, TE Jewell, JS Tieder, JAMA pediatrics

In this systematic review of US-based pediatric CPGs, race was frequently used in ways that could negatively affect health care inequities. Many opportunities exist for national medical organizations to improve the use of race in CPGs to positively affect health care, particularly for racial and ethnic minoritized communities. Read the full article here.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2792739

A Rubric to Center Equity in Obstetrics and Gynecology Research

Batman, Samantha MD, MPH; Rivlin, Katherine MD; Robinson, Whitney PhD; Brown, Oluwateniola MD; Carter, Ebony B. MD, MPH; Lindo, Edwin JD

From Obstetrics & Gynecology: The Steering Committee for the Obstetrics & Gynecology special edition titled “Racism in Reproductive Health: Lighting a Path to Health Equity” formed a working group to create an equity rubric. The goal was to provide a tool to help researchers systematically center health equity as they conceptualize, design, analyze, interpret, and evaluate research in obstetrics and gynecology. This commentary reviews the rationale, iterative process, and literature guiding the creation of the equity rubric. Read the full article here.

https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/fulltext/2023/10000/a_rubric_to_center_equity_in_obstetrics_and.4.aspx

Learning critical Black history can change white perspectives on racism in health care

From UCLA:

Two-thirds of white Americans believe that Black Americans do not experience racism or racial inequities in health care.
UCLA psychologists exposed white study participants to the well-documented history of medical-related mistreatment of Black Americans.
Subsequently, white participants were more likely to adopt a new perspective and support policies aimed at reducing racial disparities in health care.

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/learning-black-history-can-change-perspectives-on-health

Meet the Office of Healthcare Equity Peer Trainers

From the UW Medicine Huddle:

In 2019, the Office of Healthcare Equity (OHCE) began providing antiracism training, with the goal of reaching every member of the UW Medicine community.

By bringing together subject matter experts in five core equity, diversity and inclusion areas, the small team rolled out training first to leadership groups and then to teams, departments and offices across the system.

“It quickly became apparent that to reach the whole UW Medicine community, we needed more trainers,” says Lee Davis, lead trainer for OHCE.

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Meet the Office of Healthcare Equity Peer Trainers