Subject Guides
Anti-Racism Research & Resource Guide
Hot Topics (COVID-19 and Race/Racism)
Popular/News Articles, Podcasts, Data, Webinars
- The Color of Coronavirus: Covid-19 Deaths By Race and Ethnicity in The U.S.Data From: APM Research Labs
- Why COVID-19 is decimating some Native American communitiesBy: Timothy M. Smith | AMA | 2020
- Why Native Americans took Covid-19 seriously: 'It's our reality'By: Nina Lakhani | The Guardian | 2020
- How Health Disparities Are Shaping the Impact of COVID-19By: Karen Kruse Thomas | Johns Hopkins School of Public Health | 2020
- The Many Ways COVID-19 Exacerbates Pre-existing Inequality (ScienceFriday Podcast)ScienceFriday Podcast | 34 mins | 2020
- Many Latinos Couldn’t Stay Home. Now Virus Cases Are Soaring in Their CommunitiesBy: Shawn Hubler, Thomas Fuller, Anjali Singhvi, and Juliette Love | New York Times | 2020
- Indian Health Services Coronavirus pageNative specific COVID-19 data
- Global Health and Social Medicine | COVID-19 Webinar SeriesFrom: Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School | 2020
Scholarly/Academic Articles
- COVID-19 and Ethnic Minorities: An Urgent Agenda for Overdue ActionBy: Kamlesh Khunti, Lucinda Platt, Ash Routen, and Kamran Abbasi | BMJ | 2020
- Black-White Risk Differentials in COVID-19 (SARS-COV2) Transmission, Mortality and Case Fatality in the United States: Translational Epidemiologic Perspective and Challenges (Int J Environ Res Public Health)By: Laurens Holmes Jr et. al. | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 2020
- Purposeful surgical delay and the coronavirus pandemic: how will Black breast cancer patients fare?By: Samilia Obeng-Gyasi, Bridget Oppong, Electra D Paskett, and Maryam Lustberg | Breast Cancer Research and Treatment | 2020
- Indigenous populations: left behind in the COVID-19 responseBy: Kaitlin Curtice and Esther Choo | Lancet | 2020
- The impact of the risk of COVID-19 on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) members of the UK dental professionBy: Chet Trivedy, Ian Mills, and Onkar Dhanoya | British Dental Journal | 2020
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Articles
Popular/News Articles
- Changing How Race Is Portrayed in Medical Education: Recommendations From Medical StudentsBy: Edwin Nieblas-Bedolla MPH et al | Academic Medicine | 2020
- Being Black Is Bad for Your HealthBy: Risa Lavizzo-Mourey and David Williams | U.S. News and World Report | 2016
- Why Black doctors like me are leaving faculty positions in academic medical centersBy: Uché Blackstock | STAT | 2020
- Many Medical Decision Tools Disadvantage Black PatientsBy: Gina Kolata | New York Times | 2020
- Lawmakers Demand Scrutiny of Racial Bias in Health AlgorithmsBy: Tom Simonite | Wired | 2020
Scholarly/Academic Articles
- Trends in Differences in Health Status and Health Care Access and Affordability by Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1999-2018By: Shiwani Mahajan, MBBS, MHS, César Caraballo, MD, Yuan Lu, ScD, et. al. | JAMA | 2021
- Race and Pharmacogenomics—Personalized Medicine or Misguided Practice?By: Christopher W. Goodman and Allan S. Brett | JAMA Viewpoint | 2021
- Recalibrating the Use of Race in Medical ResearchBy: John P. A. Ioannidis, Neil R. Powe, and Clyde Yancy | JAMA Viewpoint | 2021
- Racial Bias in Health Care and Health Challenges and OpportunitiesBy: David R. Williams, PhD, MPH and Ronald Wyatt, MD, MHA | JAMA viewpoint | 2015
- Racial Bias in Pain Assessment and Treatment Recommendations, and False Beliefs About Biological Differences Between Blacks and WhitesBy: Kelly M. Hoffman, Sophie Trawalter, Jordan R. Axt, and M. Norman Oliver | PNAS | 2016
- Race, socioeconomic status and health: Complexities, ongoing challenges and research opportunitiesBy: David R. Williams, PhD, Selina A. Mohammed, PhD, Jacinta Leavell, PhD, and Chiquita Collins, PhD | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2012
- Health disparities due to diminished return among Black Americans: Public policy solutionsBy: Shervin Assari | Social Issues and Policy Review | 2018
- Racial disparities in health among nonpoor African Americans and Hispanics: The role of acute and chronic discriminationBy: Cynthia G.ColenPhD, MPH et al. | Social Science & Medicine | 2018
- Understanding associations among race, socioeconomic status, and health: Patterns and prospectsBy: David R. Williams, Naomi Priest, and Norman Anderson | Health Psychology | 2016
- High Risk of Depression in High-Income African American Boys (J Racial Ethn Health Disparities)By: Shervin Assari and Cleopatra H. Caldwell | Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities | 2018
- Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newbornsBy: Brad N. Greenwood, Rachel R. Hardeman, Laura Huang, and Aaron Sojourner | PNAS | 2020
- Systemic Racism: Pharmacists’ Role and ResponsibilityBy: Vibhuti Arya, Lakesha Butler, Sandra Leal, Lucinda Maine, Nancy Alvarez, Natasha Jackson and Alex C. Varkey | AJPE | 2020
- Link to 26 additional articles in PubMedThere are many, many articles that could be put on this guide. This list of 26 are just a few that were found in PubMed during a search in summer 2020. (Some are also listed in the COVID section above.)
These, and many others, were found using the search:
(health AND (("Race Factors"[Mesh]) OR "Racism"[Mesh] OR "Ethnic Groups"[Mesh]))
Podcasts & Videos
Podcasts
- The Health Costs Of Racism | ScienceFriday | 17 min.Discussion on the health affects of PTSD from racism. Guests are Monnica Williams (associate professor of psychology and brain sciences at the University of Louisville) and Courtney Cogburn (assistant professor at Columbia University’s School of Social Work).
- The 'Immortal' Story Of One Woman's Cells | ScienceFriday | 22 min.The story of Henrietta Lacks told by the author of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," Rebecca Skloot.
- The Liberation of RNA | Radiolab | 28 min.Brandon Ogbunu, a Black biologist tells his story.
- Meet Alice Ball, Unsung Pioneer In Leprosy Treatment | ScienceFriday | 16 min.The story of Alice Ball, a Black chemist in the early 1900's.
- G: The Miseducation of Larry P | Radiolab | 65 min.The story of why IQ tests were not permitted to be administered to Black children.
Videos
"Black Table Talk: Celebrating Black Women’s Health Part 1" | Cayuga Health | 21 min.
"Black Table Talk: Celebrating Black Women’s Health Part 2" | Cayuga Health | 26 min.
"How Racism Makes Us Sick" | David R. Williams | TED | 17 min.
Reading lists
Librarians at Providence Health Care Systems put together two reading lists with the goal of helping caregivers learn more about racial inequality in healthcare. If there are resources on these lists that you are interested in but we don't have access to, contact ngilman@binghamton.edu to see if they can be purchased.
Additional Resources
- NEJM Perspectives Roundtable - Race in MedicineIncludes a video recording, audio interview, and transcript
- Racism in Medicine and Healthcare guide from UNLV LibrariesAnother guide put together by Librarians at UNLV. If you see anything on their guide that you want but don't have access to, let us know!
- Transcultural C.A.R.E. Associates"keynote presentations, workshops, seminars, consultations, and training focusing on clinical, administrative, research and educational issues related to cultural competence, transcultural health care & mental health."
- EthnoMed"information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other topics related to the health care of immigrants to the US"
