Obesity and Systemic Racism: A Teaching Guide for a New Paper
Is obesity a manifestation of systemic racism? This teaching guide will stir thought and provoke discussion among students.

Is obesity a manifestation of systemic racism? This teaching guide will stir thought and provoke discussion among students.
Racism is the public health issue of our time, after having been woefully un- or under-addressed for centuries.
The COVID-19 pandemic has given renewed importance and urgency to the need for racial and gender diversity in clinical trials.
Through social movement advocacy and engagement, BIPOC can create their own narrative of medical need and activism.
Among the most salient lessons to be learned from the coronavirus pandemic is that justice is just plain good for America’s health.
Racism has repeatedly stymied progress toward the good governance of necessities. Anti-racism, therefore, must be at the core of any solution.
In just three sentences, Justice Holmes delivers a message that has lasted through today: some lives matter more than others.
BIPOC are either subject to hypervisibility, or medical erasure, where their medical needs are left unaddressed and ignored.
Medical neocolonialism does not exist in a vacuum. It is tied to the presumed expendability of Black life.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the tradeoffs at stake for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) seeking reliable health advice.