Harms and Biases Associated with the Social Determinants of Health Technology Movement
This article addresses key harms and biases associated with the SDOH technology movement.

This article addresses key harms and biases associated with the SDOH technology movement.

The American Medical Association has failed to promote greater racial inclusion in its flagship publication, JAMA, despite an explicit pledge to do so.

Collectively with these contributors, we aim to define the contours of the health justice movement and debates within it.

Placing community first and allowing them to drive solutions-based strategies is imperative to the health justice movement.

During the pandemic, community-based organizations filled many gaps by delivering services that local governments could not provide.

It’s time to re-envision and invest in a new public health infrastructure, one that is equipped and authorized to respond to the global crises we’re facing.

I grew up in the South Bronx, insulated from the absence of health justice until the fourth grade, when I began attending private school.

Researchers and advocates have long-documented the disparate punishment and policing of BIPOC students compared to their white peers.

To us, health justice means change. Not cosmetic or peripheral change, but wide-scale, systemic change.

Our ability to breathe is shaped by the laws and politics that govern the use of technologies, and that validate racialized assumptions about people.
