Our DFMCH Office of Community Health has developed a list of Anti-Racism Resources in service of our DEI Anti-Racism Departmental Initiative. There are countless resource lists compiled by experts in anti-racism work across the web; our list is by no means comprehensive. However, our Office of Community Health DEI group sits at a unique position at the axes of education, medicine, wellness, and community partnerships, and we have therefore chosen to use this platform to share a compilation of resources to elevate important anti-racism work being done locally, nationally, and globally to help us all engage individually and collectively in the inward and outward-facing work necessary in this space.
This resource page includes well-being resources for BIPOC employees of UW Health and/or UW Madison, general anti-racism educational resources, anti-racism educational resources specific to racism in medicine, and a list of BIPOC-led community organizations in Dane County, WI doing work that advances health equity.
Please contact Maddie Batzli at communityhealth@fammed.wisc.edu with any questions or suggested additions to the list.
- For those new to learning and thinking about race and racism–please consider first taking a look at the “getting started” sections at the beginning of our Anti-Racist General Educational Resources and Race & Racism in Medicine tabs. These core, brief videos and articles help introduce these complex topics.
- Our learning and unlearning work is a lifelong practice without an end-point. It is valuable to continue the work of educating ourselves and sharing with those around us before we are ready to dive into action, and of course, to continue learning simultaneously while working to reimagine and redefine the systems and structures in which we live, work, learn and play.
UW SMPH and UW Health stand in support of the Association of American Medical Colleges statement expressing concern about the chilling effect of the Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping, and the need for diversity training at this time in the nation’s history. Read more about the AAMC statement and an accompanying FAQ. We are committed to being a diverse, inclusive, equitable and antiracist academic medical center.
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