Racism and Health

This report details participants’ descriptions of several promising practices, critical challenges, and points for future collaboration.

The science behind the COVID-19 vaccines is sound, but institutions must address skepticism among communities scarred by histories of medical duplicity.

Academic medical centers turn to community partners, trusted minority leaders, and media platforms to explain the science to hesitant racial and ethnic groups.

David J. Skorton, MD, AAMC president and CEO, talks with Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, about racism in academic medicine.

The AAMC has issued guidance supporting medical student and resident participation in demonstrations and other forms of peaceful public protest against police brutality and systemic racism.

The AAMC issued this statement on police brutality and racism in America and their impact on health.

Students are demanding medical institutions combat racism, and their institutions are listening.

The new coronavirus is worrisome for everyone. But for people who live with poverty, health inequities, and other woes, the outbreak could be especially brutal.

Whether you survive COVID-19 should not depend on your race or ethnicity. Here's what needs to happen so all patients have the chance to live a healthy life.

Medical schools and teaching hospitals aim to improve community health through partnerships with local organizations.

Chronic homelessness can have a devastating impact on patients’ health. Here’s how some teaching hospitals are helping rebuild housing — and lives.

Leaders in academic medicine must confront racism and inequity to create a culture that exemplifies our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity.

The AAMC is helping academic health centers achieve health and health care equity by building their capacity to create community health systems that weave together institutional community health initiatives and partnerships with local organizations.

It’s easy to see why Black communities often distrust vaccination. But the pandemic’s toll means we have to increase faith in it — and fast.

Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ibram X. Kendi, renowned voices in antiracism, call for institutional antiracism.

Medical students take the lead in calling for reexamination of assumptions about race used in common diagnostic formulas.

An expert looks at how false notions and hidden biases fuel inadequate treatment of minorities’ pain.

A disturbing number of students report being mistreated at some point during medical school.

COVID-19 has taken an outsized toll on communities of color. We must continue to educate our students on the health inequities that contributed.

All people must have the same chance for health, no matter their race or background, argued AAMC leaders and several other speakers at the Atlantic Festival.

These competencies present a roadmap for medical education curricular and professional development, performance assessment, and improvement of health care.

Black men face many obstacles in their path to medicine. At the AAMC’s annual meeting, three who succeeded shared their stories and ideas on how to help others.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.) announced plans to introduce the AAMC-supported COVID-19 Bias and Anti-Racism Training Act.

As an interviewee, I heard racist remarks. In courses, I saw Black patients omitted from lessons. Here’s what medical schools need to do to address these ills.

Physicians can be caught off-guard when confronted by the bigoted behavior of a patient. How should a physician respond when this happens?

At one medical school, admissions committee members didn't even know they harbored hidden biases. But some simple training opened their eyes.

Leaders at medical schools and teaching hospitals are examining how unconscious bias affects academic medicine and looking at ways to mitigate the impact.

This guide provides nine essential tasks to help navigate the diversity and inclusion strategic planning process. 

These resources are meant to aid diverse academic medicine professionals in their career development.

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities digs deep to expose roots of health disparities seen in minority groups.

This report provides students, medical educators and administrators, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public with detailed statistical information on diversity in academic medicine.

The AAMC's State of Health Equity report presents results from a database of disparities-focused health services research.

The 2017-2018 AAMC Curriculum Inventory Report on Racial Disparities demonstrates the current reported coverage of racial disparities within the educational content of accredited U.S. medical schools.

This collection of articles was curated to help readers engage in necessary conversations about race and to inform strategies to eliminate structural racism in their institutions.

This collection features articles about addressing bias and discrimination in the health professions learning environment, among educators and learners, and in assessment and curricula.

This collection provides educators with practice-based, peer-reviewed resources to teach anti-racist knowledge and clinical skills, elevates the educational scholarship of anti-racist curricula, and aims to convene a community of collaborators.

The AAMC has developed a collection of select research articles and books that describe how racism affects health and well-being and offer a starting place for further exploration.

In this podcast, guests discuss how race is portrayed in medical education and what individuals and institutions should do to address racism in the curriculum and learning environment.

Community healers and leaders must address issues related to inequality, social exclusion, racism, and bias that all too often are linked to societal violence.

In his new book, a physician shines light on cause and effect between income gap and premature death.