AAMC Racism and Health: A Reading List
“This nonexhaustive collection of select research articles and books, both seminal and new, describes how racism affects health and well-being and offers a starting place for further exploration.” –Description from the Association of American Medical Colleges
AHRQ National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
“Tools for measuring healthcare quality, including the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Quality Indicators, and ambulatory clinical performance measures.” –Description from AHRQ
American Medical Association’s Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts
“Designed for physicians and other health care professionals, the Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts provides guidance and promotes a deeper understanding of equity-focused, person-first language and why it matters.”
American Psychological Assocation’s Inclusive Language Guidelines
“These inclusive language guidelines are written for those working to champion equity, diversity, and inclusion in the spaces that they learn, teach, work, or conduct research.”
Anti-Racism and Healthcare Research Guide
University of San Francisco research guide containing resources for anti-racism as it relates to healthcare.
Bystander Intervention Training to stop anti-Asian/American and xenophobic harassment
“In response to the rise in Anti-Asian/American and xenophobic harassment, we at Hollaback! partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC to adapt our free bystander intervention training as well as offering a de-escalation training to meet this moment.”
CDC’s Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication
“This is a living document which will be adapted as both language and cultural norms change. This is not a style guide and is not meant to be prescriptive or exhaustive, but rather to provide principles, resources, and specific suggestions on a variety of topics to help inform an inclusive approach to public health communications. These guiding principles reflect the best practices as we know them at CDC.”
The Micropedia of Microagressions
“The Micropedia aims to collect everyday microaggressions and highlight their harmful impact through source-based definitions and real-world examples.”
Stop AAPI Hate
“In response to the alarming escalation in xenophobia and bigotry resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council (A3PCON), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), and the Asian American Studies Department of San Francisco State University launched the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center on March 19, 2020. The center tracks and responds to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning, and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.”
Stop AAPI Hate National Report
“This national report covers the 9,081 incident reports to Stop AAPI Hate from March 19, 2020 to June 30, 2021. The number of hate incidents reported to our center increased from 6,603 to 9,081 during April—June 2021. Of all incident reports, 4,548 hate incidents occurred in 2020 and 4,533 of hate incidents occurred in 2021.”
Talking About Race Web Portal
Created by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Provides tools and guidance for starting and inspiring conversations about race.
UnBIASED
“This 5-year project, funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLMR01LM013301), is a collaboration between the University of Washington and the University of California San Diego. Our ultimate goal is to create tools to support patients and the next generation of doctors to have bias-free interactions that promote healthcare access, quality, and equity”