Take Action

Professional Societies

Sign up for an account and track your progress against each activity.

1. Commit to Acting for Equity

Commit to taking at least one action from each category.
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Commit to Acting for Equity

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Optional: List actions you or your organization are taking

2. Getting Grounded in History & Your Local Context

Facilitate increasing knowledge among all staff and board members about the history of racism and other forms of oppression (sexism, ableism, classism, ageism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, etc.) at the national, local, and organizational levels.
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Getting Grounded in History & Your Local Context

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Provide educational and professional development opportunities that equip health care professionals to advance racial justice and health equity

Examine and identify historical and contemporary examples of inequitable harms in national, local, and organizational policies and practices, including reviewing organizational archives

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3. Identifying Opportunities for Improvement

Address organization-level contributors to inequitable access to health services (e.g., racist clinical algorithms, inequitable advancement within the specialty).
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Identify opportunities for improvement

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Review all major clinical pathways, algorithms, guidelines etc. to identify those that have caused or perpetuated health inequities in access or outcomes

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4. Taking Initiative

Address organization-level contributors to inequitable access to health services (e.g., racist clinical algorithms, inequitable advancement within the specialty).
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Activities

Address organization-level contributors to inequitable access to health services (e.g., racist clinical algorithms, inequitable advancement within the specialty)

Resources