Strategy
Ensure all staff and clinicians have a baseline knowledge of racism and how systems of power and structural oppression impact the quality of care patients receive.
Action Step(s)
- Introduce the topics of bias and structural oppression in formal staff education.
- Create space or formal process for staff to self-assess personal unconscious biases that may impact clinical care.
Tools & Resources
- #WhiteCoatsForBlackLives - Addressing Physician’s Complicity in Criminalizing Communities (Article): Important primer article by Dr. Jamila Perritt, CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health, describing some of the ways our current healthcare system upholds white supremacy and endangers communities of color.
- Allegories on Race and Racism (YouTube TEDx Talk): In this landmark TEDx Talk, Dr. Camara Jones shares four allegories on “race” and the types of racism which can help healthcare workers understand how racisms can unconsciously impact clinical care.
- Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener’s Tale (PDF): Companion publication for Dr. Jone’s TEDx Talk.
- Project Implicit (Website with Self Assessments): Data bank of Internal Association Tests to help identify individual implicit biases.
- Prioritizing Health Equity: The American Medical Association (AMA) Prioritizing Health Equity video series examines how health equity determines care during the COVID-19 pandemic.