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.

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Medical School Outcomes, Primary Care Specialty Choice, and Practice in Medically Underserved Areas by Physician Alumni of MEDPREP, a Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program for Underrepresented and Disadvantaged Students

Anneke M. Metz
2016
  • Advocacy Pillars: Workforce Diversification
  • Skills: Leadership Development
  • Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Students/Trainees
Minorities continue to be underrepresented as physicians in medicine, and the United States currently has a number of medically underserved communities. MEDPREP, a postbaccalaureate medical school preparatory program for socioeconomically disadvantaged or underrepresented in medicine students, has a stated mission to increase the numbers of physicians from minority or disadvantaged backgrounds and physicians working with underserved populations. This study aims to determine how MEDPREP enhances U.S. physician diversity and practice within underserved communities.

Medical Education as Liberatory Praxis: Experiences From the UCLA “Structural Racism and Health Equity” Curriculum

Cyndi Baker et al.
2025
  • Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education
  • Skills: Network Building, Political Education
  • Audience: Educators, Students/Trainees
This paper describes the origins and initial experiences of an innovative student-led, faculty-supported, and community-accountable ongoing experiment in structurally competent anti-racist medical training: the UCLA Structural Racism and Health Equity (SRHE) Curricular Thread.

Measuring the Impact of Building Community Power for Health Justice: What? Why? And How?

The Praxis Project
2020
  • Advocacy Pillars: Centering Community Power, Repairing Harm with Community Redress
  • Skills: Network Building, Organizing
  • Audience: Community Based Organizations, Students/Trainees
Building community power is increasingly recognized as a valuable and necessary strategy to improve health justice and racial equity, with both immediate and long-term results. However, there is limited research or documentation of authentic discussions on the definitions, nuances, and front-line measurement of building power. In the fall of 2017, The Praxis Project hosted five learning circles with some of the nation’s most impactful basebuilding community organizers to engage in deep reflection and discussion about building and measuring power. This brief provides a summary of our discussions and recommendations to measure the impact of building power as a strategy to improve health justice and racial equity.

Making the Case for Medical-Legal Partnerships: A Review of the Evidence

Tishra Beeson, Brittany Dawn McAllister, Marsha Regenstein
2013
  • Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education
  • Skills: Curriculum Development, Organizing
  • Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
The following white paper summarizes the salient literature on medical-legal partnership (MLP), an innovative, integrated and collaborative model that brings legal services into the health care setting to address health inequities among vulnerable populations. This review of the evidence will present the need for legal and health services integration, describe the essential components of the MLP model as well as the process for delivering integrated services, and finally, explore the state of preliminary evidence of MLP impact on patients, providers, and communities at large.

Long-Term Outcomes of a Dental Postbaccalaureate Program: Increasing Dental Student Diversity and Oral Health Care Access

Cynthia Wides et al.
2018
  • Advocacy Pillars: Workforce Diversification
  • Skills: Leadership Development
  • Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Students/Trainees
The University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry established the Dental Postbaccalaureate Program in 1998 to provide reapplication assistance to students from economically and/or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds who were previously denied admission to dental school. The goals were to increase diversity in the dental school student population and improve access to dental services for underserved populations. This article assesses the program’s short-, mid-, and long-term outcomes and is the first to examine long-term practice patterns after a dental postbaccalaureate program.

LGBT Trainee and Health Professional Perspectives On Academic Careers—Facilitators and Challenges

Nelson Sánchez et al.
2015
  • Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education, Institutional Support for Historically Excluded Groups, Workforce Diversification
  • Skills: Leadership Development
  • Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
LGBT trainees and HCPs contribute significantly to services, programs, and scholarship focused on LGBT communities. LGBT individuals report a desire for a workplace environment that encourages and supports diversity across sexual orientation and gender identities. Institutional policies and programming that facilitate LGBT inclusion and visibility in academia may lead to greater faculty work satisfaction and productivity, higher retention and supportive role modeling and mentoring for the health professions pipeline.

Legacies and Lessons: A Final Conversation With Fitzhugh Mullan

Susan B. Hassmiller
2020
  • Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education, Workforce Diversification
  • Skills: Leadership Development, Policy Advocacy
  • Audience: Artists, Community Based Organizations, Educators, Government Workers, Researchers, Students/Trainees
The late academic, physician, policy maker, and writer discusses his career achievements, lessons for the future, and cancer.

Language Justice: A Toolkit for Organizers

Right to the City Alliance
  • Advocacy Pillars: Centering Community Power, Institutional Support for Historically Excluded Groups, Repairing Harm with Community Redress, Workforce Diversification
  • Skills: Network Building, Organizing
  • Audience: Community Based Organizations, Researchers
This toolkit was created to support organizers in the Right to the City Alliance, Homes for All, and other social justice organizations and formations to integrate the framework and practices of language justice into our work. Language and communication are foundational to the work of organizing. Being intentional about our language practices is essential to building representative, resilient, healthy and strategic movements capable of making the transformative changes we need.

Language Justice Toolkit

Communities Creating Healthy Enviornments
2020
  • Advocacy Pillars: Centering Community Power, Institutional Support for Historically Excluded Groups, Workforce Diversification
  • Skills: Network Building, Organizing
  • Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers
This Language Justice Toolkit is the product of the collective work of individuals and organizations who share a commitment to “multilingual spaces” – that is, spaces intentionally created to incorporate two or more languages and cultures in all aspects of the group process. Everyone who contributed to the Toolkit did so from the conviction that multilingual spaces are essential for building strong movements for racial and social justice. Much of the learning that informed this toolkit came from a Language Justice Learning Circle, organized in fall of 2011 by the Praxis Project, Highlander Research and Education Center, Colectivo Flatlander and Berkeley Media Study Group.

Interventions Associated With Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Us Graduate Medical Education

Russyan Mabeza et al.
2023
  • Advocacy Pillars: Workforce Diversification
  • Skills: Leadership Development
  • Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
In 2019, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) revised the common program requirements to require training programs to implement “policies and procedures related to recruitment and retention of minorities underrepresented in medicine and medical leadership,” and that program evaluations should include assessments of these efforts. However, the ACGME did not provide guidance or best practice recommendations on how programs should meet these requirements. Given the imperative to increase diversity across specialties, this scoping review synthesizes strategies that have been executed to increase racial and ethnic diversity within GME training programs across medical and surgical specialties in the United States.

Champion Spotlight

The Social Mission Alliance features Social Mission Champions on our social media accounts and blog. The series highlights the important work done by those who are advancing health equity and addressing the health disparities of the society in which it exists. If you’d like to be considered for a Social Mission Champion feature, complete the form below.