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Racism in Medical Journals: An Interview with Dr. Faye Gary
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Racism in Medical Journals: An Interview with Dr. Faye Gary

My colleague, Taneisha Fair, recently opened a conversation on racism in medical journals. As a follow-up, I spoke with an expert in publishing on psychiatric nursing and vulnerable populations. Dr. Faye Gary, an expert in psychiatric nursing, has built her career on advocating for vulnerable populations, including Black women. As a Black woman herself, she...

Racism as a Public Health Crisis: Examining Racism in Medical Journals
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Racism as a Public Health Crisis: Examining Racism in Medical Journals

We’ve written about the steps that can be taken by institutions to help end racism as a public health crisis. One prevalent issue that must be addressed in that process is the failure to examine racism in medical journals and publish health research that reports on its impacts. Health Affairs published a report in 2021...

Racism is a maternal health crisis: address the external forces
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Racism is a maternal health crisis: address the external forces

Maternal mortality in the United States is the highest of any developed nation. Even more striking is that Black women die at three times the rate of white women. Racial disparities in health outcomes are well-known and well-documented, and maternal health is no exception. However, little has been mentioned about the effect of systemic racism...

Buy Back the Block: uplifting Black neighborhoods
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Buy Back the Block: uplifting Black neighborhoods

“Why don’t they care about their neighborhood?” A question quietly whispered while driving down a street with run down houses and boarded up stores. While that question looks at the current issues facing many neighborhoods in our state and nation, it doesn’t get to the root of the issue of how we got here. Who...

PEP: Interrupting disparities in the behavioral health pipeline
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PEP: Interrupting disparities in the behavioral health pipeline

For many, 2020 was a year of struggle and difficulties, especially dealing with a pandemic and community unrest. But for an 8-year-old child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, 2020 would also be the year they were handcuffed by police making them the youngest person to be handcuff by Ohio’s Cleveland Division of Police. Over the years, we,...

talking about race taking responsibility
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Anti-racist action: ending racism takes external effort and internal, reflective work

Over the course of our Racism as a Public Health Crisis series, we’ve examined suggestions offered by Dr. Camara Jones, past-President of the American Public Health Association, in a lecture on taking action beyond making declarations to address racism as a public health crisis. Her first two steps of action included 1) name racism and...

We cannot achieve racial equity until we are ready to ask people to identify their race
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We cannot achieve racial equity until we are ready to ask people to identify their race

Ohio is becoming more racially diverse. The demographic shift will naturally continue because the younger generation is more likely than previous generations to report being something other than “Non-Hispanic White Alone.” That’s the way the U.S. Census Bureau describes people who are white and nothing else. As we’ve written about in the past, the Census...

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