Fatphobia
Materials for the week on fatphobia in the Health, Human Rights, and Advocacy course run by the Mount Sinai Human Rights and Social Justice Program
How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health
Study analyzing the ways stigma serves as a health stressor.
[Optional reading for HHRA students]
Racism in Medicine
Materials for the Racism and Medicine week in the Health, Human Rights, and Advocacy course run by the Mount Sinai Human Rights and Social Justice Program
Historic redlining, structural racism, and firearm violence: A structural equation modeling approach
A piece outlining the connection between racist redlining housing practices and gun violence.
[Optional reading for HHRA students.]
Article: "How Structural Racism Works — Racist Policies as a Root Cause of U.S. Racial Health Inequities"
[Optional reading for HHRA students]
Introduction to Advocacy: Thinking with/in Mount Sinai
Materials for the introductory week of the Human Rights and Social Justice Program's Nexus course, "Health, Human Rights, and Advocacy"
Interview with Rachel Wilkinson (HRSJ Oral Histories)
An interview with Rachel Wilkinson, MD (Sinai 2021) as part of the HRSJ Oral History project
Interview with James Blum (HRSJ Oral Histories)
Interview with James Blum, MD (Sinai Class of 2021) as part of the HRSJ Oral History project.
The Human Rights and Social Justice Scholars Program: A Collaborative Model for Preclinical Training in Social Medicine
This article details the design and implementation of the Human Rights and Social Justice (HRSJ) Scholars Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
For HRSJ Nexus course week on disability activism.
Consider the ways medicine, and medical education, insist upon linear time.