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Update:  The AMA’s strategic plan to embed racial justice and advance health equity:   https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/ama-s-strategic-plan-embed-racial-justice-and-advance-health-equity

The AMA’s strategic plan to embed racial justice and advance health equity:   https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/ama-s-strategic-plan-embed-racial-justice-and-advance-health-equity


Racial Justice:  The Task Remaining Before US

“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion: that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain: that this nation under GOD, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by  the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth. “

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysberg, PA   November 19, 1863  http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm  

Where do we start?  With information

The Origin of Race in the USA By NPR

https://youtu.be/CVxAlmAPHec

How racism makes us sick By David R. Williams, PhD, MPH

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_r_williams_how_racism_makes_us_sick/discussion


Protecting the Public Health from Gun Violence and Racism:

https://www.aaphp.org/Racism/



How do we move further?  

The AMA’s strategic plan to embed racial justice and advance health equity:   https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/ama-s-strategic-plan-embed-racial-justice-and-advance-health-equity


The  Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit Links  http://pittsburghracialjusticesummit.org  


The  University of Pittsburgh School of Public Heath Violence Prevention Initiative (VPI)  http://www.healthequity.pitt.edu/violence-prevention  is a multipart effort dedicated to addressing community violence. 


Resources on Racism and Health from the American Public Health Association -https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/health-equity/racism-and-health



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