EDI Library

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Library

Our Diversity Council has curated a selection of recommended titles for learners at all points in their journey. These titles represent the broad range of experiences of our department and community.

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, Nikole Hannah-Jones
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehise Coates
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, Edited by Alice Wong
How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
March Trilogy, John Lewis
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong
A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities, Mady G. & Jules Zuckerberg
So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing, Jillian Horton, MD

Publications

Bailey ZD, Krieger N, Agénor M, Graves J, Linos N, Bassett MT. Structural racism and health inequities in the USA: evidence and interventions. Lancet. 2017 Apr 8;389(10077):1453-1463. PDF
Dovidio, J. & Ikizer, E. Discrimination. Oxford Bibliographies 2019. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199828340-0233
Hafer, C. & Choma, B. Belief in a Just World, Perceived Fairness, and Justification of the Status Quo. In J. T. Jost, A. C. Kay, & H. Thorisdottir. Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification. 2009 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320916.003.005.
Hoffman, K. M., Trawalter, S., Axt, J. R., & Oliver, M. N. Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016. doi:10.1073/pnas.1516047113 PDF
Hutchings, P. B., & Haddock, G. Look black in anger: The role of implicit prejudice in the categorization and perceived emotional intensity of racially ambiguous faces. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2008. 44, 1418 –1420.
Klein, G. (May, 2019). The curious case of confirmation bias. Psychology Today.
Shapiro, J. R., Ackerman, J. M., Neuberg, S. L., Maner, J. K., Vaughn Becker, D., Kenrick, D. T. Following in the wake of anger: when not discriminating is discriminating. Pers Soc Psychol Bull 2009. 35(10), 1356-1367. doi:10.1177/0146167209339627 PDF
Ellis J, Otugo O, Landry A, Landry A. Interviewed while Black. N Engl J Med. 2020 Dec 17;383(25):2401-2404. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2023999. Epub 2020 Nov 11 PDF
Metzl JM, Hansen H. Structural competency: theorizing a new medical engagement with stigma and inequality. Soc Sci Med. 2014 Feb;103:126-133. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.06.032 PDF
Van Ryn M. Avoiding Unintended Bias: Strategies for Providing More Equitable Health Care. Minn Med. 2016 Mar-Apr;99(2):40-3, 46. PDF

Minehart RD, Jackson J, Daly J. Racial Differences in Pregnancy-Related Morbidity and Mortality. Anesthesiol Clin. 2020 Jun;38(2):279-296. PDF
Brad N. Greenwood, Rachel R. Hardeman, Laura Huang, Aaron Sojourner. Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sep 2020, 117 (35) 21194-21200. PDF
Petersen EE, Davis NL, Goodman D, et al. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy-Related Deaths – United States, 2007-2016. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2019;68:762-765. PDF
Grobman WA, Bailit JL, Rice MM, Wapner RJ, Reddy UM, Varner MW, Thorp JM Jr, Leveno KJ, Caritis SN, Iams JD, Tita AT, Saade G, Rouse DJ, Blackwell SC, Tolosa JE, VanDorsten JP; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network. Racial and ethnic disparities in maternal morbidity and obstetric care. Obstet Gynecol. 2015 Jun;125(6):1460-7.
Edwards BN, McLemore MR, Baltzell K, Hodgkin A, Nunez O, Franck LS. What about the men? Perinatal experiences of men of color whose partners were at risk for preterm birth, a qualitative study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2020 Feb 10;20(1):91. PDF
Vedam S, Stoll K, Taiwo TK, Rubashkin N, Cheyney M, Strauss N, McLemore M, Cadena M, Nethery E, Rushton E, Schummers L, Declercq E; GVtM-US Steering Council. The Giving Voice to Mothers study: inequity and mistreatment during pregnancy and childbirth in the United States. Reprod Health. 2019 Jun 11;16(1):77. PDF
Attanasio LB, Hardeman RR. Declined care and discrimination during the childbirth hospitalization. Soc Sci Med. 2019 Jul;232:270-277. PDF

Video & Media Resources

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
Developed by psychologists at Project Implicit®, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) is a free online test that measures users’ strength of subconscious associations between certain concepts (e.g., black people, gay people) and evaluations (e.g., good, bad) or stereotypes (e.g., athletic, clumsy) for the user.
http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/implicit-bias-training/
A 4-module-implicit bias training series. The program is go-at-your-own-pace and easy to follow, with recaps and concise take-home messages.

https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2020/january/tracing-slaverys-impact-on-african-american-public-health-today/
Robert Fullilove, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Associate Dean of Community and Minority Affairs at the Columbia University Medical Center, traces the impact of slavery on African American public health today.

https://www.aamc.org/professional-development/affinity-groups/gdi/webinar-transforming-institutional-culture-assessment-and-interventionThe Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) presents organizational approaches to effect culture change (from initial assessment to targeted interventions to promote equity)

https://www.axios.com/robert-fullilove-public-health-racism-f9c15f0d-cb75-466d-94f2-d3e9a7cef51b.html
Axios interview with Professor Robert Fullilove, who explains that racial disparities are baked into multiple aspects of American society and disparities in healthcare are only one symptom of this larger problem.

P&G Series (3 videos):
https://youtu.be/KtaVQqwFEBU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC7lbdD1hq0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7bnS8R994I
P&G created a series of thought-provoking films on bias and racism as an invitation to the often-silent majority to become allies, advocates and activists to end racial inequality.

https://mpog.org/files/videos/asa2020/jimenez.mp4
Dr Nathalia Jimenez, MD, MPH discusses initiatives to incorporate EDI concepts when conducting perioperative outcomes research and QI projects.