This week’s Health Justice newsletter highlights strategies for addressing the unique challenges facing vulnerable communities.

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** Health Justice
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This week’s Health Justice newsletter highlights strategies for addressing the unique challenges facing vulnerable communities. First, the concept of normality and its dehumanizing nature. Next, how including diverse perspectives in research and design can improve health innovations. Then, a conversation about the connections between discrimination in medicine and health disparities for BIPOC people. Finally, solutions to strengthen the pipeline of healthcare providers for rural and other underserved areas.

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Confronting Health’s Normality Bias ([link removed])
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“While ‘normal’ seems like an innocent term, its cultural baggage reveals complex and derisive implications… In valuing some human beings over others, the term is misaligned with health justice, which is grounded in equity.” Read more… ([link removed])


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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation ([link removed])
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“The creativity and ingenuity of socially marginalized and racialized groups can drive innovative healthcare solutions. However, despite their potential contributions, these groups are too often shut out of innovation ecosystems.” Read more… ([link removed])

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Challenging Racism in the Healthcare System: A Conversation with Dr. Uché Blackstock, MD ([link removed])
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“In her new book, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine, Dr. Uché Blackstock, MD, confronts a medical system that has failed and continues to fail BIPOC Americans and with which she, as a Black physician, has struggled personally in her own journey into some of the country’s most venerated halls of medicine.” Read more… ([link removed])

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Closing Care Gaps: Physician Shortages, Medical Deserts, and Health Disparities ([link removed])
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“…in the United States, the number of physicians and surgeons—including specific medical and surgical specialties that are vital for vulnerable populations—is in decline.” Read more… ([link removed])


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