Towards the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education, Research and Practice

Towards the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education, Research and Practice

Racism, not race, causes health disparities. This truth, powerfully realized in Dorothy Roberts' Fatal Invention, guides our work. Our working group’s founding members are medical students and masters students, two of us women of color and three of us members of the Freedom School, united by a common goal: to place justice and anti-racism at the center of our practice of medicine. We have studied and inquired further via medical schools and the Freedom School about how the misuse of race and racism in medicine targets our own communities and women of color.

Therefore, we seek to advance scholarship on racial justice by bridging together existing work on race with our growing, first-hand knowledge of clinical education, research, and practice.We aim to amplify voices, mostly of women of color, already providing essential critiques of the use of biological race in healthcare, and to further bridge the gap between critical race theory and medicine. Our responsibilities to our patients, to our communities, and to advancing justice demand we make this call.


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Report Release: Toward The Abolition Of Biological Race In Medicine

05.13.2020 | 5:00 PM |  Virtual - Zoom Webinar

Join medical scholars Noor Chadha, Madeleine Kane, Bernadette Lim, and Brenly Rowland for community & dialogue as they reveal their report “Towards the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education, Research, and Practice” and celebrate the launch of the Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine.

The Institute is a Hub – a community, a research epicenter, and a dialogue space. We center around publishing and uplifting rigorous research, narratives, and stories related to social justice and community activism in Western medicine and public health. During this launch, you will be able to hear from student authors, national medical student activists, and the founders of the Institute on how to apply report findings towards justice in your medical institution/practice and how to be involved in the Institute’s future activities.

You can find the full report here: https://www.instituteforhealingandjustice.org/