Resources

Relevant Readings

Health Care Disparities: Causes & Remedies

• Brian Smedley, Could a Decline in Medical School Students of Color Affect Americans’ Health Outcomes?
• Gregg Bloche, Ethics and Health Systems Change: Introduction
• Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, edited by Brian Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
• Julie Linton, Testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (addressing impact of family separation on child health and well being)
• Lisa A. Cooper, Christina Vincent, & Kareem Crayton, Enhancing Civic Engagement in Communities With Health Disparities
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Ending Unequal Treatment: Strategies to Achieve Equitable Health Care and Optimal Health for All
• Ruqaiijah Yearby, Structural racism and health disparities: reconfiguring the social determinants of health framework to include the root cause

Engaging Medical-Care Providers to ress Non-Clinical Determinants of Health

• Chidinma A. Ibe, Debra Hickman, & Lisa A. Cooper, To Advance Health Equity During COVID-19 and Beyond, Elevate and Support Community Health Workers
• Deidra C. Crews, Chiquita A. Collins, & Lisa A. Cooper, Distinguishing Workforce Diversity From Health Equity Efforts in Medicine
• Emily Benfer, James Bhandary-Alexander, Yael Cannon, Medha Makhlouf, Tomar Pierson-Brown, Setting the Health Justice Agenda: ressing Health Inequity & Injustice in the Post-Pandemic Clinic
• Lisa A. Cooper, Somnath Saha, & Michelle van Ryn, Mandated Implicit Bias Training for Health Professionals—A Step Toward Equity in Health Care
• Medha Makhlouf, Towards Racial Justice: The Role of Medical-Legal Partnerships
• Prashasti Bhatnagar, Cassandra Ramdath, Desiree Pinto, & Erin Hall, Navigating Law Enforcement Presence in Emergency Departments
• Prashasti Bhatnagar, Deborah Perry, and Margaret Greer, How Should We Measure Effectiveness of Medical-Legal Partnerships?
• Vicki W Girard, Yael Cannon, Deborah F Perry, & Eileen S Moore, Leveraging Academic-Medical Legal Partnerships to Advance Health Justice

Social, Economic, & Environmental Determinants of Health Disparity

• Adrienne R. Ghorashi and Ruqaiijah Yearby, Role of State Constitutions in Racism, Governance, and Health Equity
• Alessandra C. Angelino, Yolanda Evans, Kelly Moore, & Shaquita Bell, Ending the Erasure of American Indian and Alaska Native Adolescents and Young Adults in Research in the United States
• Allison Empey, Andrea Garcia, & Shaquita Bell, American Indian/Alaska Native Child Health and Poverty
• Andrea N. Garcia, Allison Empey, & Shaquita Bell, ressing the Impacts of Racism on American Indian and Alaska Native Child Health
• Kimberly M. Nelson, Wendy E. Parmet, Kristen Underhill & Ruqaiijah Yearby, The Return of Jane Crow: Law Affecting Black People and Other People of Color
• Kristin Henning, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
• Lisa Cooper, Yerby Diversity Lecture in Public Health: Lisa A. Cooper
• Lisa Cooper, Public Health On Call
• Lisa Cooper, Everyone deserves to be healthy. Research cuts could prevent it.
• Olanrewaju Falusi, Julie M. Linton, & Lisa R. Fortuna, Children in Immigrant Families: Advancing Health Equity
• Prashasti Bhatnagar, Mary Mbaba, Whitney Hewlett Noël, Opiaah Jeffers, & Deborah Perry, “Racism Bleeds throughout this Entire Healthcare System”: Elevating Black Women’s Birth Stories in Washington, DC through A Racial Equity Lens
• Ruqaiijah Yearby, The Return of Jim Crow: Government Discrimination Against Women, LGBTQIA+ Individuals, and Racial/Ethnic Minority Individuals
• Ruqaiijah Yearby, Structural Racism and Health Disparities
• Ruqaiijah Yearby, Brietta Clark, & José F. Figueroa, Structural Racism In Historical And Modern US Health Care Policy
• Ruqaiijah Yearby, Crystal Lewis, and Charysse Gibson, Incorporating Structural Racism, Employment Discrimination, and Economic Inequities in the Social Determinants of Health Framework to Understand Agricultural Worker Health Inequities
• Sarah Goldman, Anna Aspenson, Prashasti Bhatnagar, Robert Martin, Essential and in crisis: A review of the public health threats facing farmworkers in the US
• Shaquita Bell, Olanrewaju Falusi, & Edwin Lindo, Elimination of race-based medicine: a call to action
• Shaquita Bell, Jason F. Deen, & Molly Fuentes, et al., Caring for American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Adolescents
• Shaquita Bell, Testimony of Shaquita Bell on Behalf of the AAP to Discuss the Critical Importance of Federal Investment in American Indian and Alaska Native Child Health
• Sheila R. Foster & Christian Iaione, Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities
• Yael Cannon, The Persistent Public Health Emergency

Advocacy for Health Justice

• M. Gregg Bloche, David Orentlicher, & Kerry Wallace, When Should Federal Health Professionals Disobey Orders?
• Medha Makhlouf, Health Justice for Immigrants
• Nicole Tuchinda & Yael Cannon, Critical Perspectives to Advance Educational Equity and Health Justice
• Prashasti Bhatnagar, Medical-Legal Partnerships and Legal Regimes: A Health Justice Perspective
• Ruqaiijah Yearby, The Social Determinants of Health, Health Disparities, and Health Justice
• Vicki Girard, Deborah Perry, Lisa Kessler, Yael Cannon, Prashasti Bhatnagar, & Jessica Roth, The Academic Medical-Legal Partnership: Training the Next Generation of Health & Legal Professionals to Work Together to Advance Health Justice
• Yael Cannon, Equitable Thriving: A Lifecourse Approach to Maternal and Child Health Justice
• Yael Cannon, Case and Commentary: How Is Access to Legal Resources and Advocacy Foundational to Health Justice?
• Yael Cannon, Unmet Legal Needs as Health Injustice
• Yael Cannon, Julie Linton, Del Ivey, & Shaquita Bell, The Politics and Policies Against US Children