Next up on the playlist, @RRHDr and colleagues tackle calling a spade a spade, & ask whether the public health explicitly names institutionalized racism.
Answer: Nope! Over 13, only *16* papers focused on institutionalized racism!
#SERjournalclub
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…
There are lots of was that racism is enacted in our institutions & our research.
One of the places I (@EpiEllie) think it’s particularly important to call out racism is in machine learning and AI algorithms.
For eg, this algorithm👇🏼sure looks racist
A quick summary of playlist article #2 in case you havent had time to read it yet today:
The authors conducted a systematic review of all Ovid or PubMed Medline appears between 2002 & 2015 to find ones that explicitly named institutionalized racism.
They found 207 papers.
Of those 207 papers with institutionalized racism in the title and/or abstract, only 25 met the rest of their inclusion criteria, namely:
•addressed a US context
•in a high-impact journal
Of those 25 papers, 19 were published since 2011, and only 16 were really *about* institutionalized racism as a core concept!
Why is this important? For the same reason it’s important to understand the *reasons* behind why women are getting fewer grants awarded than men!
Because we can’t change the system if we don’t understand the way the system operates.
As Dr @CamaraJones put it in this great article cited by @RRHDr’s excellent paper:
“it is only by naming racism, asking the question ‘how is racism operating here?’ and then mobilizing with others... that we can have any significant or lasting impacts”
jstor.org/stable/4149999…
The silver lining here is that if you want a reading list for yourself or your students about institutionalized racism in public health then @RRHDr has you covered with a list of the 25 most relevant papers!
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