Movement & Organizing Library
Birthed out of the For Us All campaign, the Movement & Organizing Library is a living collection of research, tools, stories, and frameworks for health professional students and leaders who are organizing for justice, dignity, and care.
Whether you are designing a course, leading a campaign, or just looking for language to name what you are experiencing, this library is here to support you. We encourage you to take what you need and share what you learn.
Eleanor Fleming, Mercedez Agyemfra, Nnamdi Anige, Sarah E. Raskin
2022
- Advocacy Pillars: Workforce Diversification
- Skills: Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
Only twelve percent of dentists in 2020 self-identified as being Black, Latinx, or “Other,” which includes American Indian. Moreover, the proportion of dentists from these groups profoundly fails to reflect the demographic composition of the U.S. overall. This article discusses the need for evidence-based, ethically-grounded approaches to successfully and continuously recruit and retain Black, Latinx, and American Indian dental students. The authors explored barriers and opportunities to sustainable pathways to the dental profession.
Jeff Rousset
2018
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education, Centering Community Power, Institutional Support for Historically Excluded Groups, Repairing Harm with Community Redress, Workforce Diversification
- Skills: Network Building, Organizing
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Government Workers, Researchers, Students/Trainees
The goal of this manual is to introduce you to an organizer’s perspective on leadership. Organizing can be learned as a leadership practice based on accepting responsibility for enabling others to achieve purpose under conditions of uncertainty: identifying, recruiting and developing leadership, building a constituency around that leadership, and transforming the resources of that constituency into the power they need to achieve their purposes.
John E. Snyder et al.
2023
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education, Workforce Diversification
- Skills: Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
This paper presents findings that suggest that greater Black PCP workforce representation is associated with better population health measures for Black individuals, although there was a dearth of US counties with at least 1 Black PCP during each study time point. Investments to build a more representative PCP workforce nationally may be important for improving population health.
J. Corey Williams, Nientara Anderson, Dowin Boatright
2021
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education, Repairing Harm with Community Redress
- Skills: Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
In this Commentary, we will (1) define a reparative justice framework, (2) provide a brief historical context of the systemic racism in American medicine that necessitates reparative justice, and (3) explore concrete examples of reparative justice in academic learning environments to address issues of underrepresentation and poor retention of minority groups.
Lorel E. Burns, Cheryline Pezzullo, Rose J. Amable, Lenny Mayorga, Eugenia E. Mejia
2020
- Advocacy Pillars: Workforce Diversification
- Skills: Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
The aim of this study was to increase the understanding of perceived barriers to applying to dental school experienced by underrepresented minority (URM), pipeline program alumni.
Bickford et al.
2023
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education, Repairing Harm with Community Redress
- Skills: Curriculum Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Students/Trainees
Drawing on knowledge and practices which emerge from activist spaces, an accountability framework is built upon a systemic understanding that requires shifts in belief, thinking, and behavior at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, and societal levels. This paper will introduce a suggested framework for social work education to engage in accountability rather than competency-based education and practice, and discuss how it may be applied to guide a response to anti-transgender legislation across the U.S.
Kamna S Balhara, Michael R Ehmann, Nathan Irvin
2022
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education
- Skills: Curriculum Development, Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Students/Trainees
This article describes how the health humanities provide a powerful framework for antiracist health professions education. The authors conclude with a snapshot of an existing humanities-based antiracist curriculum, with suggestions to facilitate implementation in other settings.
Tesiah Coleman
2020
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education
- Skills: Curriculum Development, Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
Studies link racism to higher mortality rates, earlier onset of more severe diseases, and higher comorbidity and impairment. This article explores nursing education as an upstream intervention to addressing racial inequities. Six recommendations were created to guide the praxis of anti-racism in nursing education. The recommendations were based on examination of nursing literature and draw on experiences of the author.
Meredith Smith, Tricia McGuire-Adams & Kaylee Eady
2024
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education
- Skills: Curriculum Development, Political Education
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
This paper shares a scoping review that was conducted to address how anti-oppressive pedagogy is conceptualized and integrated in health professions education. The articles demonstrated that AOP is not commonly utilized terminology within health professions education. The results of this scoping review highlight the need for health professions education to develop one clear concept that educators use when teaching about anti-oppression, which may reduce working in silos and allow educators to better collaborate with each other in advancing this work.
Dhanesh Binda et al.
2023
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education
- Skills: Curriculum Development, Political Education
- Audience: Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
This scoping review assesses the existing undergraduate medical education (UME) literature of anti-racism curricula, implementation, and assessment.
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