In this October 4, 2021, Prioritizing Equity discussion, AMA Chief Health Equity Officer, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, and leaders across a continuum of disciplines discuss critical race theory and its applications to the field of health equity.

Panel:
• Dennis C. Chin—Vice president of Narrative, Arts, and Culture, Race Forward
• Malika Sharma, MD, MEd—Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital; assistant professor, University of Toronto
• Bram Wispelwey, MD, MS, MPH—Senior fellow at Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity, associate physician, Division of Global Health Equity Brigham & Women's Hospital
• Rahel Zewude, MD—Black Physicians of British Columbia, Black Physicians of Canada, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia

Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association

► Transcript: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/health-equity/prioritizing-equity-video-series-critical-race-theory

0:00 Introduction
2:09 What is critical race theory?
4:16 Critical race theory and health care
5:54 When did you first engage with critical race theory in your work?
7:40 How critical race theory is viewed outside of the U.S.
9:34 Exposure to critical race theory in medical education
13:13 An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine - Boston Review (https://bit.ly/3LHB9x2)
19:15 Responding to attacks on critical race theory (https://bit.ly/3IbslNy)
24:56 Embedding critical race theory into med ed training
30:04 The challenges around applying CRT in medical education
36:02 How can institutions advance antiracism work and health equity?

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