MCB 32: Introduction to Human Physiology: Race & racism in medicine

From UC Berkeley's School of Public Health, the "Racism Harms Health" website looks at how inequities in neighborhoods, healthcare, education, work, food, and policing affect individual and community health. This is a good place to start to find one specific example of medical racism to research in more depth for your paper.

A Presidential Advisory from the American Heart Association published in the journal Circulation (Volume 142, Issue 24, 2020) stating that a fundamental cause of persistent health disparities in the United States is structural racism.

Annual reports from the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) offering findings on disparities in the quality of and access to health care.

A topic collection from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

Data, poll results, and other information from the Kaiser Family Foundation on disparities in health care access, treatment and outcomes. Includes extensive coverage of COVID-19 racial disparities.

A five-session series held at the UCSF School of Medicine discussing the origins of the use of racial categories in medicine, the controversies surrounding its current use and practice, and corrective future directions for clinical care, medical education, and research.

Policy brief from the UC Berkeley Othering & Belonging Institute discussing the attribution of health disparities to the biology and physiology of racial groups rather than to social and structural factors.

Article from Stanford Medicine magazine (Issue 1, 2021) about how racial classification of patients can lead to poorer treatment.

Information from the Office of Minority Health & Health Equity of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the social determinants of health.

Article by Megha Garg, MD, MPH, reporting on a panel discussion by six health care experts. From the UCSF Magazine Summer 2021 issue.

COVID-19 deaths by race and ethnicity in the U.S. from CDC data, visualized by the American Public Media Research Lab.

Global and national data and other information on the COVID-19 pandemic from Johns Hopkins University & Medicine. New data ceased being collected in March 2023.

Current health equity-related data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID Data Tracker.

Resources on the disparate impacts and treatment of COVID-19 from the website Racial Equity Tools.

Global cases of COVID-19 reported per 100,000 population from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Issue brief issued March 15, 2021 from the US Office of The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation describes then-current evidence related to COVID-19 related health disparities and potential policies to address them.