Day 10 Description

During this TedMED talk, "How Racism Makes Us Sick," David R. Williams recounts his dismay with the mortality rate of Black people compared to white people in America, and has made it his life's work "to understand why race matters profoundly for health." After being told that racism in health cannot be measured, Williams developed a solution for measuring how racism impacts the health of Black people and shares what institutions in the U.S. are doing to improve health outcomes and access to quality care.
WATCH, LISTEN or READ: How Racism Makes Us Sick (May 2, 2017 | 18 min)


In the following two pieces, we hear from UC San Diego alums as we explore how the effects of structural racism impact medical education and what we know about medicine.
READ: Commentary: Racism is a Public Health Issue (July 7, 2020 | 10 min)

READ: Commentary: I Experienced Racism at UCSD Medical School 50 Years Ago (July 7, 2020 | 10 min)