Racism is “a system [of power and oppression] of structuring opportunity and assigning
value based on the social interpretation of how one looks (which is what we call “race”) that …

Despite growing interest in understanding how social factors drive poor health outcomes,
many academics, policy makers, scientists, elected officials, journalists, and others …

The present-day practice of trying to avoid consideration of race when making clinical
decisions, set next to the historic inclusion of race as a factor in medicine, reveals a tension …

The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on May 25 has shocked and
rocked the nation, but the institutional racism that permeates US society has been hiding in …

Racism, as a health, public health, and health care issue has received important attention in
recent medical journals. 1-3 However, while racial and ethnic health disparities have been …

Racism is a fundamental cause of racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes.
Researchers have a critical role to play in confronting racism by understanding it and …

Conferences–US Public Health Service and the Milbank Fund• key determinants of black
white gap in morbidity and mortality were socioeconomic and environmental deficiencies,• …

The protests occurring across the US beginning the day after Memorial Day were sparked by
a shocking video that captured how black persons are often grossly abused and even killed …

There have been over 100 years of literature discussing the deleterious influence of racism
on health. Much of the literature describes racism as a driver of social determinants of …

In August 2020, the editors of JAMA Network Open put forth a Call for Papers on Prevention
and the Effects of Systemic Racism on Health, 1 acknowledging systemic racism as one of …