MDMLG Spring Program - Ending Race-Based Medicine
Wednesday, February 19th at 1:00pm
The Zoom link is located in the listserv posting.
Join us as the co-creators of the Wayne State University School of Medicine’s End Race-Based Medicine Taskforce Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, MD, FAAP and Latonya Riddle-Jones, MD Associate Professor - Clinical Internal Medicine talk about the work their task force is doing to dispel and extinguish the misguided belief that individual races are biologically distinct groups determined by genes, and terminate medical practices and research that adhere to that concept.
"Race-based medicine is the practice of medicine – and other forms of health care – grounded in racial essentialism, which is the false belief that races are biologically distinct groups determined by genes," Dr. Opara said. "It is a key component of structural and systemic racism in medicine and has perpetuated multiple generations of harm to Black, as well as other minoritized and structurally excluded communities."
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