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  • May 6, 2021
Video: Why historical harms should shape Covid-19 vaccine distribution | AskOBI
Denise Herd, the associate director of the Othering & Belonging Institute, intervenes in the conversation surrounding vaccine distribution.
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  • May 6, 2021
Video: How distributing vaccines by age is hurting people of color | #AskOBI
Denise Herd, the associate director of OBI, discusses shortcomings in vaccine distribution methods.
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  • March 4, 2021
Video: Infecting the COVID-19 Response and Corrupting Democracy
How has the far-right used the pandemic to exacerbate racial othering and undermine democracy? What strategies can racial justice organizers use to build power and counter right-wing narratives? A panel of experts weighs in.
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  • February 2, 2021
Health Equity and the Circle of Human Concern
On February 1, 2021, Institute director john a. powell and staff researcher EJ Toppin published an article in the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics.
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  • Publication
  • November 19, 2020
Community-based Insulin
Click to download a PDF of this report. At the age of twenty-six, Alec Smith slipped into a diabetic coma and died, just one month after aging out of his mother’s insurance and learning his insulin and related supplies would cost $1,300 per month out...
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  • Video
  • June 26, 2020
Video: The Disparate Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color
On June 26, 2020, Director john a. powell joined in conversation with the Multnomah Bar Association. The discussion focused on the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 and the predicament of police brutality affecting communities of color.
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  • Video
  • June 26, 2020
Video: Structural Racism and COVID19: The Political Divide & Re-Opening Society
At a time when the pandemic is being politicized, a panel of UC Berkeley scholars called on Friday for bridging among different social and racial groups to help recognize their common interests and to emerge from COVID-19 more unified.
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  • Publication
  • May 13, 2020
Toward the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine
The use of biological race in medicine is an unchallenged, outdated norm throughout clinical education, research, and practice.
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  • May 11, 2020
Heat map reveals racial disparities in Covid-19 by state
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 11, 2020 BERKELEY, CA: A new interactive “heat map” released Monday shows how different states across the country are experiencing disparities in infection and death rates by race, which may offer clues in how state-level...
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  • April 24, 2020
Video: A conversation about racism, health inequities and COVID-19
Emerging data show that African Americans and other U.S. ethnic minorities are being stricken by COVID-19 at a higher rate, and experiencing greater sickness and a higher death toll than other Americans.