Dr. Camara Jones from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention gave a lively talk to an engaged audience about the trend of racism in health care in the United States. A national conversation on racism in health care is still lacking in the United States, she argues, and certainly in Canada this is also true. Further this necessitates a larger discussion about race and racism and how that affects the health of a population. Watch the video below to hear more. Read our review of the literature on racism in Canadian health care here
Dr. Camara Jones (CDC) on Race and Racism and Canadians’ Health from Wellesley Institute on Vimeo.