Narratives and Language

02/14/22 • 48 min

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This week's edition of our Prioritizing Equity series focuses on the power of narratives and language in health care. It explores how dominant narratives perpetuate harm, and offers examples of how these narratives can be challenged and disrupted, moving towards equity-focused and person-first alternatives.

Read the guide: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdf

Panel:

Philip M. Alberti, PhD—Founding Director, AAMC Center for Health Justice and Senior Director, Health Equity Research and Policy at Association of American Medical Colleges
David A. Ansell, MD, MPH—Senior Vice President and Associate Provost, Community Health Equity, Rush University Medical Center
Renee Canady, PhD, MPA—Chief Executive Officer of MI Public Health Institute
Malika Fair, MD, MPH, FACEP—Senior Director, Equity and Social Accountability, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC); Assistant Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Services

Moderator: Fernando De Maio, PhD—Director, Health Equity Research and Data Use, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association

Originally aired: February 14th, 2022

The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity.

Read the guide: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdf

Panel:

Philip M. Alberti, PhD—Founding Director, AAMC Center for Health Justice and Senior Director, Health Equity Research and Policy at Association of American Medical Colleges
David A. Ansell, MD, MPH—Senior Vice President and Associate Provost, Community Health Equity, Rush University Medical Center
Renee Canady, PhD, MPA—Chief Executive Officer of MI Public Health Institute
Malika Fair, MD, MPH, FACEP—Senior Director, Equity and Social Accountability, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC); Assistant Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Services

Moderator: Fernando De Maio, PhD—Director, Health Equity Research and Data Use, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association

Originally aired: February 14th, 2022

The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Previous Episode

Redistributive Justice

The January 24, 2022 edition of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series focuses on redistributive justice and its impact on the health of patients and communities that have been socially and economically marginalized and minoritized.

Panel:

Ivelyse Andino—Founder and CEO of Radical Health
William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr., PhD—Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University
Eugene Richardson, MD, PhD—Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association

Originally aired: January 24, 2022

The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Next Episode

The Myth of Meritocracy in Medicine and Health Care

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Explore the myth of meritocracy, its presence in health care and how physicians can push past it to advance health equity. Daniel Markovits, JD, Melody S. Goodman, PhD, Tomás Diaz, MD and moderator Fernando De Maio, PhD discuss in this Prioritizing Equity panel.

Panel:

Daniel Markovits, JD—Guido Calabresi Professor of Law and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Private Law, Yale Law School
Melody S. Goodman, PhD—Associate Dean for Research/Associate Professor of Biostatistics, New York University School of Global Public Health
Tomás Diaz, MD—Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Educator at Columbia University Medical Center

Moderator: Fernando De Maio, PhD—Director, Health Equity Research and Data Use, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association

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