S3 Ep. 13 Exploring Unequal Treatment 20 Years Later with Dr. Brian Smedley and Dr. Keon Gilbert

"There's no single discipline that's gonna be able to really understand how structures and systems have been created to produce racial inequality in this country... Interdisciplinary collaboration is key to this work, particularly if we are focused on identifying and dismantling systemic racism." In this episode, Dr. Keon Gilbert is in conversation with Dr. Brian Smedley, the Study Director at the Institute of Medicine for the landmark report entitled “Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care." Twenty years later, they reflect back on the paper as a beacon for HPP's “What is Antiracism in Health Promotion Practice?” series. Dr. Smedley calls for robust, comprehensive data collection, monitoring, and public reporting in order to monitor for access, quality of care, and outcomes of care. They also discuss the reallocation of healthcare resources and centering of community voices in the redesigning of these systems. Other recently published papers in HPP’s What is Anti-Racism in Health Promotion Practice series:  "Dear Health Promotion Scholar: Letters of Life From, for, and About Black Women in Academia" by LaNita S. Wright, PhD, Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD, and Jeanetta D. Sims, PhD "PRESENCE//Gifted: On Poetry, Anti-Racism, and Epistemic Violence in Health Promotion" by Ryan Petteway.  Dr. Petteway is an HPP Associate Editor for our Poetry for the Public’s Health section and also the recipient of HPP’s 2021 Paper of the Year Award.  "Examining the White Supremacist Practices of Funding Organizations for Public Health Reearch and Practice: A Composite Narrative from Female, BIPOC Junior Researchers in Public Health" by Elizabeth Chen, Deshira Wallace, Cristina Leos, and Yesenia Merino.