The Overturning of Affirmative Action Will Worsen Health Disparities

In this episode we discuss affirmative action and how its overturning has negatively impacted healthcare. And we highlight Dr. Uché Blackstock and her memoir Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine*.

 

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Sources

Medical schools will be even less diverse after affirmative action ruling, experts say | NBC News

 

Health care is the new battlefront for anti-DEI attacks | PubMed Central

 

Crosby, F. J. (2006). Understanding Affirmative Action. Annual Reviews, Vol. 57:585-611