Menu

Deep dives into real issues impacting healthcare, supported by

OnlineMedEdOnlineMedEd

Racial Injustice

Study after study has shown that health outcomes improve when physicians look like the people they are treating. In this section, we shine a spotlight on racial injustice in medicine, the ways diversity affects outcomes, and the people and organizations fighting to make the field look more like the world.

A black and white photograph of a crowd of people holding signs during the March on Washington in 1963
Racial Injustice

Doctors Against Injustice: Remembering the Medical Committee for Human Rights

To the early members of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), the summer of 1964 might have had a similar feeling to this one. The United States was caught up in widespread political and social unrest. Though opposition to the Vietnam War was growing, it was the tension, and increasing reality, of the Civil Rights Movement that shook the nation. A significant, important change was occurring. Led by Dr. …