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'What are we going to do about it?': An essay on racism and health inequities
'What are we going to do about it?': An essay on racism and health inequities
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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Dec 1, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Brooke Cunningham is a general internist, sociologist, and assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota.After George Floyd's killing, she wrote and published a Narrative Matters essay in Health Affairs on how the health effects of racism become embodied for her and other Black Americans.On this episode of A Health Podyssey, Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Brooke Cunningham about the essay and what she hopes listeners and readers take from her writing. After the interview, Brooke reads her essay in full.Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Castro | Stitcher
Released:
Dec 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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