Our Initiatives

Working Groups

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Each working group aims to be a digital home for the incredible work already happening across disciplines and across the country to move toward the abolition of biological race in medicine, and toward re-imaging medical practice that is anti-racist, just, and healing.

Specifically, the eGFR, PFT and ASCVD working groups each offer a place for you to connect and work with other people advocating for the removal of race from each of these calculators, whether at your own institution or at a national level. The Reproductive Health group aims to bring people together to take action against racism and injustice in the fields of obstetrics & gynecology, incarcerated prenatal care, and beyond. The Central Repository group aims to create a centralized resource of knowledge towards overturning race-based medicine (currently a collaborative effort to design a simple, accessible app/website similar to the format of UpToDate or antibiotics apps).

We welcome people from all levels, disciplines, and backgrounds - whether you're just getting started in this work or are deeply embedded in it. Each group may create policy briefs, articles, letters, teach-outs, and/ or other tools.

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Our peer-reviewed publication aims to be a platform for narratives, voices, and experiences, and scholarship related to the intersection of social justice, health justice, and community activism in Western medicine.

We anticipate that positions for the publication’s editorial board will be open and welcome to people of all backgrounds and all ages. We aim to have our first issue be published by January 2021.

Justice Resource Hub

The Justice Resource Hub aims to bridge, share, and amplify all existing work and activism related to social justice and community activism in medicine and public health.

This includes advocacy by community and members and students including but not limited to syllabi, op-eds, theses, and more.

We also aim to host regular regional gatherings with leaders to facilitate connection and community.

Freedom School

The Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine & Health Justice is a community of students, professors, and community members involved in medicine, public health, and health justice work. We are dedicated to creating an intersectional medicine and public health that is community-centered and advocates for the collective liberation and healing for all people, especially those most vulnerable and marginalized in society. .