This is a page provides resources related to disparities in healthcare and pharmacy.
Links are provided to readings; articles and books; podcasts and videos. If you're looking more broadly, please see the pages below. Please feel free to make recommendations.
These resources are not comprehensive and inevitably reflect the biases of their creators.
Organizations
- AACP - Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives"AACP affirms its commitment to foster an inclusive community and leverage diversity of thought, background, perspective, and experience to advance pharmacy education and improve health".
- ASHP Learning Center...collection of resources to help pharmacy providers from all backgrounds address health disparities
- Diversity Resource Guide (DRG) for Diversity in Residency Training and the Pharmacy Workforce
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ASHP
A few selected books
Algorithms of Oppression by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781479849949Publication Date: 2018A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms... Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem... An original, surprising and, at times, disturbing account of bias on the internet, Algorithms of Oppression contributes to our understanding of how racism is created, maintained, and disseminated in the 21st century.
Troublesome Science by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780231185721Publication Date: 2018It is well established that all humans today, wherever they live, belong to one single species. Yet even many people who claim to abhor racism take for granted that human "races" have a biological reality. In Troublesome Science, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall provide a lucid and forceful critique of how scientific tools have been misused to uphold misguided racial categorizations...
Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781284197792Publication Date: 2020The Second Edition of this forward-thinking text goes beyond the discussion of health disparities to highlight the importance of health equity. As the new title suggests, Health Equity
