Addressing Structural Racism: an update from APA

This article first appeared in Current Psychiatry. Wills CD. Addressing Structural Racism: an update from APA, Curr Psychiatry. 2021, 20:39-46

A new Task Force focuses on dismantling racism in the APA and psychiatry

The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, which as of mid-February 2021 had caused more than 486,000 deaths in the United States, has changed our lives forever. Elders and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) have been overrepresented among those lost. That, when juxtaposed with the civil unrest that followed the brutal killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by a White law enforcement
officer on May 25, 2020, have compelled us to talk about US race relations in unprecedented ways. These and other traumas disproportionately affect the quality of life and health of minority and underserved individuals. The international outcry about racism, serial trauma, and health disparities left the medical profession well positioned to promulgate changes that are conducive to achieving health equity.

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