Advancing Anti-Racism in Community-Based Research Practices in Early Childhood and Family Mental Health

Structural racism – the ways that institutional policies, practices, and other norms operate to create and sustain race-based inequities1 –has historically been foundational to the operations of academic medical centers and research institutions. Since its inception, academic medicine depended on the exploitation of vulnerable communities to achieve medical, educational, and research goals.2 Research practices have long ignored or taken advantage of the individuals purportedly benefitting from the research, a dynamic most manifestly true for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities in the United States.

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - July 21, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ambrose Lane, Arrealia Gavins, Ar'Reon Watson, Celene E. Domitrovich, Chioma M. Oruh, Christina Morris, Claudine Sherwood, Destiny N. Sharp, Dominique Charlot-Swilley, Erica E. Coates, Erin Mathis, Gail Avent, Hillary Robertson, Huynh-Nhu Le, J. Corey Wil Tags: Translations Source Type: research