DEI Resources
Our office has compiled lists of resources if you're interested in learning more from a variety of perspectives. These are not comprehensive lists, but rather are meant to serve as a starting point for learning, understanding, and engagement.
ODEI would like to know what you are reading, listening to, or watching! We welcome your suggestions on materials to add our list of resources. An archived list of previously suggested reading materials can be found here.
Read
- Research: AAMC: Holistic Review
- National Institutes of Health Training Opportunities
- Weaving Pathways: Talking With Our Elders, RRHJ
- Academic redlining in medicine, JNMA
- Minority Tax Reform - Avoiding Overtaxing Minorities When We Need Them Most, NEJM
- Science Has A Racism Problem, The Cell
- White Privilege Papers, Peggy McIntosh
- U of M Doctors Uncover Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Epilepsy Surgery
- 5 Powerful Ways to Take REAL Action on DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion)CCL
- How to Be an Active Bystander When You See Casual Racism, NYT
- AAMC Sexual & Gender Minority Health Resources
- "My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies" by Resmaa, Menakem
- Harriet A. Washington - Medical Apartheid
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- “The Trouble with White Fragility Discourse” by Anthony Conwright
Watch
- Art & Medicine: Speaking of Race (TPT film aired April 29, 2022)
- UMN Medical School Dean's Special Lecture Series: Addressing Whiteness and White Accountability
- Dr. Camara Jones' TEDX: Allegories on Race and Racism
- Vanessa Goes To the Doctor - a video highlighting the experiences of a transwoman navigating healthcare
- UMN Medical School Dean’s Special Lecture Series: Building Communities/Repairing Harm: Restorative Practices in Academic Medicine
- AAMC Group on Diversity and Inclusion (GDI) Webinars
- TedTalk – How to reduce bias in your workplace
Listen
- All My Relations | HOME - Podcast hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish & Tulalip) & Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Code Sw!tch – “So What Exactly Is ‘Blood Quantum’?” - Podcast
- MPR News with Angela Davis – “Tackling medical debt” (July 25, 2022)
- APM Reports – “Standing in Two Worlds: Native American College Diaries” (August 2, 2022)
Do
- Liaison Committee on Medical Education
- Minnesota Doctors for Health Equity
- AAFP: American Academy of Family Physicians
- NIH (National Institutes of Health) Training Opportunities
- Attend a community event. Check out our office’s Events Calendar
- Join a book club
- Vote
- Talk to your legislators about local issues related to social and racial justice
- Have courageous conversations with your loved ones
- Follow social justice leaders/groups on social media