The websites, videos, and podcasts included here provide valuable insight into recognizing health disparities in minority groups and how practitioners are addressing these issues.

Resources & Initiatives

  • American Indian and Alaska Native Health in the United States – a pathfinder to resources from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health (OHM)
  • The Canada-US Coalition to End “Race Correction” in Health Care – a bi-national initiative to eliminate preventable health inequities that systematically target Black people, leading to clinical practices that produce unnecessary suffering, lower quality of life and premature death.
  • Close the Gap – a health equity initiative of Boston Scientific. Provides tools and resources for healthcare providers who want to fight for health equity and eliminate health disparities.  
  • The Commonwealth Fund – a non-profit organization offering information, articles, tools, and data resources to promote high-performing, equitable health care systems for society’s most vulnerable populations. 
  • Health Equity – an informational and resource page from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Inclusive SciComm – an institute of the University of Rhode Island. Offers resources and sponsors symposia to support the movement to shift the traditional paradigm of science communication toward an approach that centers on inclusion, equity, and intersectionality.
  • Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre – a non-profit, multi-institutional organization focused on building capacity for community-based indigenous health research. 
  • Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine – a non-profit focused on healing, community, and justice in medicine. Highlights article Towards the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education, Research and Practice.
  • Institute of Indigenous People’s Health – Canadian governmental organization focused on improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. 
  • National Anti-racism in Medicine Curriculum Coalition – collaboration between educators, scholars, and researchers working together to advance anti-racism, social justice, and health equity in medical curriculum. Provides a variety of learning modules on core concepts in anti-racism and medicine. 
  • Racial Equity Tools – a non-profit organization that offers tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working for racial justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities, and the culture at large.
  • REPAIR Project – a three year initiative of the University of California, San Francisco to address anti-Black racism in science and medicine. Offers a variety of resources and opportunities for learning and collaboration. 
  • Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity 2021-2023 – American Medical Association (AMA)

Webcasts, Videos, Podcasts