In this talk, Dr. Russell draws on Olefumi Taiwo’s constructive view of reparations to argue that US healthcare systems must be rebuilt in the name of racial justice. Dr. Russell will discuss the accumulations of advantage and disadvantage that characterize current US healthcare systems and their relationship to past harms and the US racial hierarchy. Dr. Russell will also consider the relationship of healthcare-based reparations to contemporary calls for racial justice like the “Black Lives Matter” movement.
At the conclusion of this talk, participants will be able to:
1. Describe ways in which race and racism negatively impact healthcare in the present.
2. Identify and reflect upon the connections between current health and healthcare disparities and the racial history of the US.
3. Conceptualize justifications for and movements toward anti-racist structural reform of healthcare systems.
This is an event of the Office of Academic Clinical Affairs (OACA) hosted by the Center for Bioethics and co-sponsored by the following U of MN units: the Medical School, the School of Nursing, the Program in Health Disparities Research, the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity, and the Center of Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender & Sexuality Studies.
Location and Address
Online