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.
Kendall Campbell
2021
- Advocacy Pillars: Institutional Support for Historically Excluded Groups
- Skills: Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
The diversity efforts disparity in academic medicine can be defined as part of the minority tax that negatively impacts faculty who are underrepresented in medicine. This disparity can be defined as differences between minority and non-minority faculty in their recruitment or assignment by the institution to address diversity issues, climate concerns and conflict around inclusion in academic medicine. It can manifest as disproportionate committee service, being asked to be the face of diversity for the school on websites or brochures or being asked to serve on diversity task forces or initiatives. In this article, the author further characterizes the diversity efforts disparity and provides recommendations for how to identify and address it in academic medicine.
Jordan Cohen, Barbara Gabriel, Charles Terrell
2002
- Advocacy Pillars: Workforce Diversification
- Skills: Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
The article discusses that increasing racial and ethnic diversity in the health care workforce is essential to delivering culturally competent care, expanding access for underserved communities, advancing research in neglected areas, and strengthening leadership that reflects a diverse population. The article also highlights that long-term solutions require major reforms in the precollege education system are needed while affirmative action tools in health professions schools provide a short-term strategy to achieving meaningful workforce diversity.
- Advocacy Pillars: Centering Community Power, Repairing Harm with Community Redress
- Skills: Network Building, Organizing, Policy Advocacy
- Audience: Artists, Community Based Organizations, Educators, Government Workers, Researchers, Students/Trainees
“This document was developed by a group of health care providers, public health workers, impacted community members, and organizers working across racial, gender, reproductive, migrant and disability justice, drug policy, sex worker, and anti-HIV criminalization movements to inspire a recommitment to the ethical values of health care provision and principles of public health.”
2023
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education, Centering Community Power, Repairing Harm with Community Redress
- Skills: Healing / Reflection / Collective Care
- Audience: Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
“This guide was created to help health care providers, nurses, midwives, doulas, hospital and clinic staff, public health, social work and allied health workers, organizers, researchers, students and people curious or concerned about the criminalization in the context of access to health care, to explore and reflect on the Beyond Do No Harm
principles, and to inspire collective action to prevent and interrupt criminalization of people seeking care.”
Vicki Girard, Deborah Perry, Lisa Kessler, Yael Cannon, Prashasti Bhatnager
2022
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education
- Skills: Curriculum Development, Policy Advocacy
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Students/Trainees
“As the national medical-legal partnership (MLP) movement grows, the need for doctors, nurses, social workers, other health professionals, and lawyers who have the knowledge, skills, and experience to collaborate effectively in this holistic healthcare approach is increasing. Given the unique role that institutions of higher education play in training students as they develop their professional identities, members of the Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance sought to build on prior efforts to define the MLP model by focusing on MLPs that exist in academic settings as a specific type of MLP. This report is based on the results of an environmental scan of MLPs that had evidence of engagement with a medical or law school and reflects the core elements of those MLPs as embodied by their objectives, activities, and unique features.”
Erynne Faucett, Michael Brenner, Dana Thompson, Valerie Flanary,
2022
- Advocacy Pillars: Institutional Support for Historically Excluded Groups, Workforce Diversification
- Skills: Leadership Development
- Audience: Educators, Students/Trainees
This paper examines the facets of the minority tax, consider the current state of diversity, and present a roadmap to redistribute, reform, and reduce URiM taxation through shared engagement in DEI initiatives.
Titilayo Borowsky Afolabi et al.
2021
- Advocacy Pillars: Institutional Support for Historically Excluded Groups
- Skills: Curriculum Development, Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
Over the past decade, medical schools across the United States have increasingly dedicated resources to advancing racial and social justice, such as by supporting diversity and inclusion efforts and by incorporating social medicine into the traditional medical curricula. This article discusses case studies of medical students’ advocacy to improve their own curricula and learning environments. The authors aimed to provide support for students and faculty pursuing anti-racist curricular changes at their own institutions.
Murtala Affini et al.
2024
- Advocacy Pillars: Workforce Diversification
- Skills: Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Students/Trainees
The objective of this report is to provide longitudinal insights on the impact of a health professions exposure program for high school students of underrepresented backgrounds in medicine.
Victor Kpandemoi Abu, Calvin R. Moorley
2023
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education
- Skills: Curriculum Development, Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
The aim of this review was to establish the current state of the literature on social justice and nursing education. The objectives included to understand the meaning of social justice for the nursing profession, assess the visibility of social justice learning in nursing education, and explore frameworks for integrating social justice learning in nursing education.
K.L. Kontaxis, S. Esfandiari
2022
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education
- Skills: Curriculum Development, Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
Social justice, empathy, and social responsibility are emerging themes in dentistry. Many dental faculties have started incorporating these concepts into their curriculum, but our knowledge of the effectiveness of these initiatives remains limited. The objective of this study was to understand how students and educators perceive the role of social justice education, if any, in the undergraduate dentistry program.
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