Racism not Race as a Cause of Health Inequities
This module explores how inequitable health outcomes are rooted in racism experienced on both a systemic and individual level. Learners will identify the roots of these outcomes in the physiological effects of navigating white supremacy and other forms of oppression: from redlining, environmental racism, and mass incarceration to the “weathering” caused by chronic stress.
Diagnostic Calculators and the Invention of Race
This module explores race as a pseudo-scientific category invented to uphold colonialism, genocide, and slavery. Learners will focus on common diagnostic calculators for everything from kidney function to c-sections, and identify their roots in falsely biologic conceptions of race.
Captive Patients: Gynecology, Slavery, and the Rise of American Medicine
In this module, you will have the opportunity to learn and explore how people who were enslaved both forcibly and by their own volition, contributed to the discipline of Gynecology as we know it, teach it, and practice it today. In addition, you will also learn (or relearn) how white supremacy and racism have and continue to infuse our daily teaching and clinical practice as providers of SRH and primary care in general.
LARC and Contraceptive Coercion
This module explores the history and current patterns of contraceptive coercion in the U.S., and their roots in eugenic and white supremacist theories of population control.
