Dismantling systemic racism in science

EA Odekunle - Science, 2020 - science.org
when preliminary evidence suggests they were not a substantial factor (5). To combat this
new misinformation, scientists must communicate clearly and dispute inaccurate, politically …

NIH must confront the use of race in science

M Yudell, D Roberts, R DeSalle, S Tishkoff… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Recent protests across the United States and the world have called attention to anti-Black
racism in policing, employment, housing, and education. Science and medicine also have …

Addressing racial inequities in medicine

MA Fair, SB Johnson - Science, 2021 - science.org
COVID-19 inequitably affects marginalized racial and ethnic populations across the world. A
review of more than 17 million adult patients in the United Kingdom revealed a nearly …

Concrete steps to diversify the scientific workforce

S Tilghman, B Alberts, D Colón-Ramos, K Dzirasa… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The recent events that precipitated the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement and
the disproportionately devastating impact of COVID-19 on many communities of color are …

Time to look in the mirror

HH Thorp - Science, 2020 - science.org
This is a grave time in American history. Both the public health and economic problems of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were foreseeable. But even more predictable is the …

Accumulation of plastic waste during COVID-19

TM Adyel - Science, 2020 - science.org
Recent protests across the United States and the world have called attention to anti-Black
racism in policing, employment, housing, and education. Science and medicine also have …

Justice, diversity, and research ethics review

DH Strauss, SA White, BE Bierer - Science, 2021 - science.org
The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on certain populations, such as Black, Latinx, and
Indigenous populations in the United States, has focused attention on inequalities in health …

Systemic racism persists in the sciences

AH Wingfield - Science, 2020 - science.org
It's tempting to think of medicine and health care as objective and neutral, driven solely by
scientific principles and free inquiry. Indeed, scientists go through extensive measures to …

Taking a closer look at COVID-19, health inequities, and racism

J Abbasi - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Amid the historic convergence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and
antiracist activism in the US, JAMA spoke with Chicago public health legend Linda Rae …

How# BlackInTheIvory put a spotlight on racism in academia

N Subbaraman - Nature, 2020 - go.gale.com
Shardé Davis and Joy Melody Woods started the hashtag https://twitter. com/hashtag/
BlackInTheIvory because they were friends, because they were two Black women in …