Episodes
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Research Justice: Rethinking the Community’s Role in Research
The California Pre-Term Birth Initiative at UCSF is forging a new approach to community-based participatory research. Hear from Alexis Cobbins and and Shannell Williams on new research strategies they have implemented as they work to eliminate racial disparities in pre-term birth. Further…
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Addressing the “School-to-Prison Pipeline”
The term “school-to-prison pipeline” describes a phenomenon wherein children who should be getting an education instead end up trapped in the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex due racial discrimination and the criminalization of learning differences, trauma, and behavioral...
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Conservatorship: The Inequities Hiding Behind the Britney Spears Case
The Britney Spears case has brought national attention to the conservatorship system in the United States. But in most ways, this case is exceptional and obscures the ways in which conservatorship affects older and disabled people, who are disproportionately people of color, women, people who are...
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Addressing Trauma at the Border: How Health Care Professionals and Lawyers Work Together to Support Asylum Claims
On this episode, Christine Lin and William Martinez discuss the conditions that lead people to seek asylum, how asylum law and policy function as a social determinant of health, and how health and legal professionals can collaborate to support asylum seekers. Further Reading: UCSF’s Health and...
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Addressing Implicit Bias as a Cause of Maternal Mortality
In response to racial health disparities in maternal mortality rates, California passed SB-464 (aka the California Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act), which mandates implicit bias training for perinatal health care providers. Sarah Garrett joins us to discuss her research on implementation…
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What is Health Injustice and What’s Law Got to Do With It?
What is health injustice? How do we recognize it? And what does law have to do with it? On this episode of Contraindicated, experts Liz Tobin-Tyler and Raquaijjah Yearby offer a primer on health injustice and inequity. Listeners can expect to learn about social determinants of health, the role of...
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Introducing Contraindicated
Introducing your hosts Areca Smit, and Sarah Hooper.
About this show
A podcast by UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy.
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