Race, Health and US History Projects
Using History to Advance Health Equity
The Problem with Bi-Dil
The implications of race-based medicine and why we shouldn’t prescribe dodgy race-based medication. View the infographics here.
The Experience of Cancer Care
How a generation of Black women have negotiated racism in approaches to cancer care. Infographic by La-Urshalar Brock. View it here.
History of the HIV Crisis in Atlanta
Written and researched by Ethan Percival, Mykaela Hubbard and Emily Soto, this essay draws on original archives and current scholarship to track the history of HIV for Black gay men in Altanta. Read the essay here.
Environmental Justice
How does the history of redlining and racial segregation lead to environmental health disparities today? Video by Madeline Salzinger, Alex Koeppel and Amber Smith. Listen to the podcast here.
Mental Health in Atlanta
Historical and current factors that affect access to mental health care in Atlanta. A podcast by Rama Eswaree, Anushka Joi, and Jessica Newman. Listen to the podcast here.
Correctional Healthcare Disparities
In this brochure, Jin Namjoong, Ashley Wegman, and Elizabeth Winter set out the history of incarceration for women and consider the health issues they encounter. View the brochure here.
Pain and Racism in Medicine
How have historically racist attitudes towards people of color affected the treatment of pain, and what is being done about it in medical schools? A podcast by Claire Hamilton, Yashna Sadhu, and Abby Weisenfeld. Listen to the podcast here.
Stigma, Covid, and Asian American Health Disparities
.Created by Clara Cai, Sophy Go and Charlie Wang, this video essay makes the link between anti-Asian immigration policy and health outcomes for Asian Americans especaially during Covid. Watch the video essay here.
Barriers to Healthcare
A comprehensive overview of how Jim Crow healthcare has created disparities from insurance to the Affordable Care Act. Read the brochure by Nicole Gill, Logan McKinley, Raphael Palacio and Sonia Ryland here.
Mental Disability, Blackness, and Employment
This brochure, created by Jenny Chen, Alexis Geller and Rose Heller analyzes the history of work as therapy in psychiatry, and examines the limitations of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act especially for people of color. Learn more here.
Mistrust in Healthcare Among Black Women in the South
This captivating virtual museum demonstrates the many factors that have lead to mistrust by Black women in health care systems. Created by Maysam Elghazi, Mina Geresu, Rahima Mumed, Noa Nelson and Awa Sibide, view the virtual exhibit here.