Podcasts Health Social Medicine On Air 2 | Antiracist Medicine | Michelle Morse

2 | Antiracist Medicine | Michelle Morse

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 4 p.m.

Michelle Morse (@michellemorse) discusses race and antiracism in medicine. Beginning with Camara Jones' metaphor of the Gardener's Tale, she helps to imagine how medicine can work for the good of all and how medicine can move past its entanglements with racist ways of thinking and acting.


Michelle Morse MD MPH is a physician, organizer, and social medicine leader who has cofounded EqualHealth, the Social Medicine Consortium, and three residency programs at the Mirebalais University Hospital. She is an assistent professor at Harvard Medical School, a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, and is currently working on the global Campaign Against Racism. 


Her recommended resources:

  • Jones, C. P. (2000). Levels of racism: A theoretic framework and a gardener's tale. American Journal of Public Health, 90(8), 1212–1215. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.90.8.1212. PDF.


  • Jones CP, Truman BI, Elam-Evans LD, et al. Using "socially assigned race" to probe white advantages in health status. Ethn Dis. 2008;18(4):496-504. PDF.


  • Ford CL, Airhihenbuwa CO. Critical Race Theory, race equity, and public health: toward antiracism praxis. Am J Public Health. 2010;100 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S30-S35. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.171058. PDF.


  • Tsai J, Ucik L, Baldwin N, Hasslinger C, George P. Race Matters?  Examining and Rethinking Race Portrayal in Preclinical Medical  Education. Acad Med. 2016;91(7):916-920. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000001232. Full text.


  • Jee-Lyn García J, Sharif MZ. Black Lives Matter: A Commentary on Racism and Public Health. Am J Public Health. 2015;105(8):e27-e30. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302706. Full text.