Learning & Training

IDSA created an Allyship Guide with resources to help you understand your privilege and the experiences of others, learn how to be an ally, influence your peers, speak up against systemic inequities, and actions to hold organizations accountable regarding structural policies and practices.

This course focuses on conscious and unconscious biases in health care and their impact on people who are disproportionately affected by disparities in health and health care.

The American Public Health Association provides a webinar series about racism's impact on health and disparities.

This podcast aims to directly address and explore the effects of racism, and other forms of marginalization so that we can collectively achieve health justice; journeying through history theory, science & medicine, by embracing storytelling, interviews and community expertise.

Michelle R. Simmons is a patient, mother and grandmother who understands firsthand the impact of health disparity in her family and in her community. Her commitment to her own health and the health of her family and community, makes her a powerful partner with Johns Hopkins Medicine to reverse the impact of health disparities.

The authors examine how race and gender shape nurses’ emotion practice and illustrate the disproportionate emotional labor among women nurses of color in American health care.

Further resources on assessment, change management & mentoring, learning & training, caring for multicultural patient populations, and research.

The Association of American Medical Colleges produced the second season of the “Beyond the White Coat Series” podcast, which focuses on addressing racism in public health, exploring institutional and systemic racism in academic medicine and what is being done to improve relationships with the Black community.

Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, Chair of the Biden-Harris Health Equity Task Force, discusses the challenges and opportunities ahead on health equity—from vaccine distribution to school reopening to treatments in this fireside chat.

Disparate impacts of COVID-19 by race, geography and other factors are explored in this IDSA podcast.

Anurag Gupta, MPhil, JD, founder and CEO of Be More America, explains implicit or unconscious bias and how health care providers and others can stop it from negatively affecting people.

The Prioritizing Equity video series from AMA illuminates how COVID-19 and other determinants of health uniquely impact marginalized communities, public health and health equity, with an eye on both short-term and long-term implications.

This podcast highlights disparities evidenced in common chronic conditions featured in the “vicious cycle” (e.g. diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic pain, mental health) and musculoskeletal/arthritis conditions, with emphasis on disparities and how social determinants of health impact these conditions and their management.

Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine. In this searing talk, Roberts lays out the lingering traces of race-based medicine and invites us to be a part of ending it.