Health, Racial Inequities, and Power in American Medicine

This Commencement Forum entitled “Health, Racial Inequities, and Power in American Medicine with the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice’s Race, Medicine, and Social Justice Research Cluster,” took place on Saturday, May 27, 2023.

The Covid-19 pandemic’s devastating impact on Black people in the US revealed many layers of societal inequities, notably in medicine, yet the crisis of anti-Black racism continues unabated. Debates over genomics research on race, racialized algorithms, high maternal mortality of Black women, profit, and myriad social movements contesting racism in medicine have been especially contentious. Learn about the work of an interdisciplinary group of scholars from across Brown who, over the past six years, have been interrogating how power and knowledge-making practices in these arenas operate to produce and re-produce racism, oftentimes invisibly.

Panelists:

Lundy Braun, CSSJ Faculty Fellow Co-Chair of Race, Medicine, and Social Justice Research Cluster, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence, Professor of Africana Studies and Medical Science

Taneisha Wilson, CSSJ Faculty Fellow Co-Chair of Race, Medicine, and Social Justice Research Cluster, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Attending Physician, Brown Emergency Medicine, Director, Equity Initiatives, Brown Emergency Medicine

Eric T. Jones, Ph.D. Candidate in Africana Studies and Member of Race, Medicine, and Social Justice Research Cluster

Dannie Ritchie, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, and Member of Race, Medicine, and Social Justice Research Cluster

Chapters:
0:00-9:20 – Welcome and Introductions
9:21- 20:30 – Lundy Braun
20:30-29:52 – Taneisha Wilson
29:52-39:07 – Dannie Ritchie
39:07- 48:32 – Eric Jones
48:32-end – Q&A