RESOURCES
ARTICLES
Black Lives Matter: A Commentary on Racism and Public Health, Jennifer Jee-Lyn García, PhD, and Mienah Zulfacar Sharif, MPH
Historic Lynchings Tied to Mortality Today, Julia Haskins
The Effects of Race-related Stress on Cortisol Reactivity in the Laboratory, Laura Richman and Charles R Jonnasaint
Social Determinants of Health, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Racism, Stress and Chronic Illness, Sana A Powell M.A., LPC SANA I. POWELL, M.A., LPCSANA I. POWELL, M.A., LP
How One Man is Trying to Help Fellow Black Men Heal Through Yoga, By Catherine Thorbecke & Nicole Curtis
Integrative Medicine and Health Disparities, Robert Saper M.D.
"When Blood Pressure is Political", Sandeep Jauhar
“More than a Stretch”, Julie Corliss
“A Randomized Comparative Trial- Yoga and Relaxation”, Caroline Smith, Heather Hancock, Jane Blake-Mortimer, Kerena Eckert
“Yoga as Ancillary Treatment for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders”, Hilary Meyer, Alexander C Stone, Alina Katsman, Daniel E Aurbach
How Police Killings Lead to Poor Mental Health in Black Communities, All Things Considered, NPR.
“Have you Ever Seen Somebody be Killed?”, Emily Badger
“Does Racism make us sick?", Tatiana Sánchez
Trauma is ‘Written Into Our Bodies’- but Educators Can Help, Stephen Merrill
“Black Babies Die at Twice the Rate as White Babies”, Priska Neely
TED TALKS
How racism makes us sick
T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, founders of the health nonprofit GirlTrek, are on a mission to reduce the leading causes of preventable death among Black women -- and build communities in the process. How? By getting one million women and girls to prioritize their self-care, lacing up their shoes and walking in the direction of their healthiest, most fulfilled lives.
The trauma of systematic racism is killing Black women. A first step toward change...
Why does race matter so profoundly for health? David R. Williams developed a scale to measure the impact of discrimination on well-being, going beyond traditional measures like income and education to reveal how factors like implicit bias, residential segregation and negative stereotypes create and sustain inequality. In this eye-opening talk, Williams presents evidence for how racism is producing a rigged system -- and offers hopeful examples of programs across the US that are working to dismantle discrimination.
