Date: Friday, August 8

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 020: Pursuing Racial Justice to Improve Health Inequities in Historically Marginalized Groups
Room: Kimball Room

Sponsor: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services

Organizers: Raja Staggers-Hakim, University of Connecticut
Virginia Kuulei Berndt, McDaniel College

Presider &

Discussant: Raja Staggers-Hakim, University of Connecticut

Description: 

Current Heath Sociology and Public Health Scholarship acknowledge the need to eliminate health inequities in order to achieve health justice. However, despite awareness of this great need, much discussion in academic and policy circles are concerned with socioeconomic resources exclusively and neglect how groups from marginalized disadvantaged communities experience multiple oppressions simultaneously and overtime. This session will explore the interface of social protest for human and civil rights that communities are still fighting in the quest for racial justice and good health. Topics include health, human rights, environmental justice, criminology, education, and more, which make connections between racial justice and human rights related to various social determinants which drive adverse health outcomes.

Papers:

“Financial Hardship among Americans with Long COVID: An Intersectional Analysis,” Bita Nezamdoust, Georgia State University

“Healing Justice as a Community Organizing Methodology for Health Equity and Racial Justice: A Quasi Experiment with Restore Oakland,” Melanie Brazzell, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University and Tash Nguyen, Restore Oakland

“Hispanic LEP Patients’ Perceptions of Physicians’ Interpersonal Communication Habits as Mediators of Medical Test Delays,” Jamilah A. Watson, University of Delaware

“Invulnerable, Inferior, or Invisible: Health Inequities & Narrative Tropes about Black Bodies in American Medicine,” Ashley C. Rondini, Franklin & Marshall College and Rachel H. Kowalsky, Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Presbyterian Hospital

“Slavery and the Legacy of Racism on Health Outcomes among African Descendants in the Americas and the Caribbean,” Raja Staggers-Hakim, University of Connecticut

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