.@DrOmolara ends w/these steps
🔹Engage: the social environment as a key for discussion
🔹Empower: communities to show up as their full selves
🔹Establish: networks that lift, not just give
🔹Encourage: action against structural barriers
Speaking at #AAP2020 Rev @CornellWBrooks starts by illustrating that #EmmettTill#TamirRice & #GeorgeFloyd are the recognized victims of police violence but that the trauma of over overpolicing is felt by whole communities & generations of children.
.@AmerAcadPeds section on Minority Health Equity & Inclusion Chair @DrHeardGarris has described this even more broadly as “vicarious racism”
Similar to secondhand smoke, vicarious racism has real impacts on child health
Pediatricians have a place to help frame the story around racism & police violence’s impact on child health. @CornellWBrooks cites the impact pediatric providers had on the Supreme Court’s Brown v Board of Education decision.
Dr. David Jones did a fantastic job laying out the history, harm & questions race-based medicine presents & @bcunningMDPHD w/a wonderful job covering how cognitive dissonance plays into the barriers we face addressing this w/our colleagues
Thanks to @uche_blackstock for recognizing what many of us are carrying this week in the wake of Breonna Taylor & her family not receiving justice or accountability 🙏🏾
Families separated at the border
Another school shooting #COVID19’s racist impact
The ongoing fight for #Medicaid #ClimateChange
All impact the health of our communities. Outcomes that are heavily influenced by participation in, or lack of, voting. #VoteHealth#VoteKids (2/)
Although we know policies directly impact health we see gaps in opportunity not only for access to resources but to the ballot box where many of our communities’ decision makers are selected.
(3/) #VoteHealth#VoteKids
Excited to report that the @AmerAcadPeds resolution, Prohibit the Use of Race-Based Medicine, I submitted & adapted from my MN colleagues @dr_okah & @AndreaWestbyMD’s groundbreaking work, not only passed but was a Top 10 selection!! #MedTwitter#MedEd
1️⃣ the Academy to end the practice of using race as a proxy for biology or genetics in all their educational events & literature, &
2️⃣ require race be explicitly characterized as a social construct when describing risk factors for disease with all presentations at AAP sponsored conferences including a slide certifying their content does not teach race-based medicine