Advancing Health Equity: A Gold Human Insight Webinar Series with NYU - The Arnold P. Gold Foundation

About this NYU-Gold series

The webinars will cultivate diversity competency using a medical humanities framework. Scholars in the humanities and social sciences will address healthcare equity using literary analysis, anthropology, sociology, history, journalism, and philosophy. Each lecture will be followed by an interactive question and answer session with attendees. The webinars will integrate race, gender, and identity in medicine using material from humanities research: literary texts, historical accounts, sociological studies, and philosophical theories.

The humanities and social sciences—given their ability to teach critical thinking, perspective taking, and reflection—are well-positioned to help address implicit and explicit biases. Following the AAMC’s report on “The Fundamental Role of the Arts and Humanities in Medical Education,” we seek to promote the key function of “social advocacy” in medical education, asking our learners to “question, critique, and transform norms as well as potential inequalities and injustices in healthcare and society more broadly.” This initiative will bolster physicians’ ability to identify and respond to biases in healthcare and enable them to similarly educate the learners whom they teach.

CME Credits

CME ACCREDITATION STATEMENT

The NYU Grossman School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CREDIT DESIGNATION STATEMENT
The NYU Grossman School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Abolition Medicine: ReImagining the Role of Social Justice in Healthcare

This session aired on Thursday, April 28, 2022, 6:00 PM ET

The “Abolition Medicine: Re-Imagining the Role of Social Justice in Healthcare” webinar featured speakers Sayantani Dasgupta, MD, MPH, Zahra Khan,MS, and Yoshiko Iwai, MS, MFA. The presentation focused on Abolition Medicine, a medical practice that is designed with the express objective of building an anti-racist future. Abolition Medicine moves beyond narratives of heroism which have been shown by several public health crises, including the pandemic and police brutality, to be futile. Instead, it focuses on the truly reparative and palliative responsibilities of medicine.

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Living to Grow Up: Progress and Persistent Disparities in Infant and Child Mortality

This session aired on Thursday, May 19, 2022, 5:30 PM ET

“Living to Grow Up: Progress and Persistent Disparities in Infant and Child Mortality” webinar featured speaker Perri Klass, MD. Dr. Klass looked back more than a century to a time when infant and child mortality was vastly more common among all population groups in the United States, and parents had to accept–and even expect–the loss of children as a facet of family life. The lecture looked both at the progress that has been made and the disparities that persist, bringing to bear the voices of parents who lived in an era of high mortality, including poets, writers, doctors, and scientists, and also the pioneering activists, physicians, and nurses who worked to bring down infant and child mortality and to address those disparities across the changing landscape of pediatrics.

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Race and Racism in U.S. Medical Education

This session aired on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, 5:30 PM ET

“Race and Racism in U.S. Medical Education” webinar featured speaker Lauren D. Olsen, PhD. Dr. Olsen reviewed the historical and contemporary manifestations of racism in medicine through two central themes, both of which she will situate historically and then trace into the present: 1) the formation and maintenance of the profession; 2) knowledge production and application in the clinic. The objective of this lecture was to build a critical awareness of the underpinnings and extent of racism in medicine today.

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The Value of Life

This session aired on Thursday, July 14, 2022, 6:00 PM ET

This lecture interrogated practices for inscribing the monetary value of human life, from antebellum protocols for insuring enslaved people to histories of incarceration. Dr. Michael Ralph showed how these financial practices involved forms of clinical expertise and suggested how learning about these protocols can enhance clinical care.

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Drowning: Film and the Challenges of Migrant Health Ethics

This session aired on Thursday, August 18, 2022, 5:30 PM ET

This presentation explored how film—fiction or documentary—can enable clinicians to think through some of the ethical challenges posed by the health care needs of displaced persons, migrants, or refugees. Dr. Catherine Belling drew from several recent films, about people attempting to migrate from Africa to Europe by sea, in order to consider questions of trauma, justice, responsibility, and the imagination. Dr. Belling ends by considering the state of migration to the United States by sea, and how the stories of shipwreck, drowning, and survival in these films provide powerful metaphors for thinking about how to seek liveable answers to sometimes impossible questions.

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Edinburgh, Boston, and Women in the Medical Schools of the 19th Century

This session aired on Thursday, September 15, 2022, 6:00 PM ET

The entry of women into British MD programs coincides with their entry into British universities: in November 1869, five women in pursuit of medical degrees passed the matriculation exams at the University of Edinburgh and became Scotland’s, and Britain’s, first female undergraduates. Women thus enter higher education at the same moment that they enter medicine. That “degrees for women” and “a medical education for women” should have been briefly synonymous in the press and public debate was a curious circumstance, but it dramatized some abstract questions: what was the purpose of higher education? How broad should it be? What made medicine “science”? The careers of this first generation of women MDs reflect an early feminism we recognize, and nineteenth-century anxieties about sexual knowledge that have grown dim, and show us a moment when professional and intellectual possibilities expand and contract at once.

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The Seizing Subject: Representations of Epilepsy in Popular Culture and Why They Matter

This session aired on Thursday, October 20, 2022, 6:00 PM ET

In this lecture, Dr. Nair discussed social media and how it helps shape public perception and experience of epilepsy, and why that matters for physicians. She focused on the social media ecologies of epilepsy, and how they reveal and exacerbate existing ableism, misconceptions, and facilitate the spread of dangerous tropes around epilepsy. But social media also helps epileptics connect across space, form community, alleviate each others’ anxieties about their illness, and seek solace.

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As seen through a lens: LGBTQ+ Health and the Media

This session aired on Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 6:00 PM ET

In this lecture, Drs. Torres and Greene weaved together the histories of LGBTQ+ health and its coverage in the news media. The past few decades have seen significant advancements in health equity for LGBTQ+ populations, as both medicine and journalism each learn to better address and serve the community. At the same time, the general public has depended on these institutions in tandem to advance knowledge, inclusion, and health justice for LGBTQ+ people.

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Equity and Diversity in Clinical Research

This session aired on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 5:30 PM ET

Medical research tends to focus on white male adult able-bodied populations to the detriment of women, disabled people, older adults and people of color, not to mention medical science. In this discussion, roundtable participants explored contemporary research practices and ways to improve the diversity of research samples. Topics addressed included representation, recruitment, historical inequalities, data collection, site selection, and the benefits of increased equity and diversity for the future of clinical research.

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