Health Equity, Advocacy & Anti-Racism

Description

Health Equity, Advocacy, and Anti-racism (HEAAR) is a comprehensive, multi-tiered, and inter-professional curricular thread embedded into the residency program with the goal of learning principles of anti-oppression and using those frameworks to understand and address the structural origins of health inequities. Given the many ways that medicine historically and presently has perpetuated racism and health inequities, it is our professional obligation to rebuild the broken trust with affected communities and to train and empower residents to advocate for health equity within the communities they serve.  

Overview

These sessions are taught by UW Faculty in partnership with local community partners. 

Optional Experiences

There are other, optional opportunities to focus on deeper integration of principles of Health Equity, Anti-Racism, and Physician Advocacy into our roles as physicians. The HEAAR curriculum has sessions represented in the following residency experiences: 

• Health Equity Pathway

• Primary Care Track

• Physician-Scientist Learning Pathway

• Resident Diversity Committee