Getting Started
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[Resource] Syllabus
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[Assignment] Intake Survey
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[Assignment] Join The Proximity Project on LinkedIn and Facebook
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[Assignment] 2023 Fall Healthcare Cohort: 1:1 Interview Assignments - Due by Session 4
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[Assignment] Community Member Interviews - Due by Session 7
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[Assignment] Community Kitchen Cabinet - Due by Session 7
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[Assignment] Proximity Plan - Due by Session 8
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[Resource] 2023 Fall Healthcare Cohort: Participant Contact List
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[Resource] 2023 Fall Healthcare Cohort: Participant Bios
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[Resource] 2023 Fall Healthcare Cohort: Spotify Playlist
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[Resource] Chat Links and Insights
Week 1: Getting Vulnerable to Get Proximate
Module 2: Unpacking Pain, Harm, and Proximity
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[Assigned Reading] The Case for Reparations, Ta'Nehisi Coates
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[Assigned Reading] “Prologue” & “Chapter Two,” American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men who Became America’s First Paramedics
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[Assigned Reading] Medical Inequality, Linda Villarosa, New York Times Magazine
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[Resource] A Broken Health Care System, Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times Magazine
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[Resource] Racist Doctors and Organ Thieves: Why So Many Black People Distrust the Health Care System, Joanne Kenen and Elaine Batchlor
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[Resource] The Greatest White Privilege is Life Itself, Ibram X Kendi
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[Resource] The Bitter Pill: Harvard and the Dark History of the Birth Control Pill, The Crimson
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[Resource] Code Switch: A Shot in the Dark
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[Recording] Live Session: Week 2 (10/6/23) (94:46)
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[Resource] Session 2 (10/6/23) Slides
Module 3: Values, Cultural Tensions, and Proximity
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[Assignment] Institutional Harm
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[Assigned Reading] White Supremacy Culture in Organizations
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[Assigned Reading] Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination, Chapter 2
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[Assigned Viewing] Watch No Mas Bebes
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[Resource] Chapter 4, “Do Doctors Eat Brains?” - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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[Resource] Toward a Definition of White Logic and White Methods, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Tukufu Zuberi
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[Recording] Live Session: Week 3 (10/13/23) (103:32)
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[Resource] Session 3 (10/13/23) Slides
Module 4: Valuing the Assets and Excellence in Communities of Color
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[Assignment Due] 1-1 Interview with Cohort Member
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[Assigned Reading] Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination, Chapter 3
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[Assigned Reading] Chapters 15-18 (pages 96-120) American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men who Became America’s First Paramedics
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[Resource] “Are you a doctor?” The Unchecked Racism Faced by Physicians of Color, Vox
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[Resource] Listen: “Profit Over People: Medical Industrial Complex 101” (38 minutes)
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[Resource] Watch PantherCare: How the Black Panthers Changed U.S. Healthcare
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[Resource] “I Am Worth It’: Why Thousands of Doctors in America Can’t Get a Job, New York Times
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[Recording] Live Session: Week 4 (10/20/23) (113:51)
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[Resource] Session 4 (10/20/23) Slides
Module 5: Standards and Expectations for Other People’s Health
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[Assigned Reading] During Our Son’s Diagnosis, Black Nurses Showed us the Care We Deserve, Rann Miller
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[Assigned Viewing] Watch TED Med: “No longer afraid: an undocumented immigrant's experience in American health care” by Denisse Rojas Marquez (13 minutes)
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[Assigned Reading] Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis, New York Times
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[Assigned Reading] A Facebook Thread: How Would You Make Medical Care Better for Plus-Size Patients?
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[Resource] My Mother Has Dementia. Here’s What I’ve Learned From Caring For Her For 8 Years.
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[Recording] Live Session: Week 5 (10/27/23) (111:11)
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[Resource] Session 5 (10/27/23) Slides
Module 6: Building an Inclusive and Affirming Organization
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[Assigned Reading] Chapters 29 and 30 (pages 194-205), American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men who Became America’s First Paramedics
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[Assigned Reading] Without Sanctuary by S. Michelle Ogunwole, M.D.
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[Assigned Viewing] The Panola Project - One Woman's Mission to Get Vaccines to Her Rural Alabama Town
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[Resource] Decolonizing Healthcare Education and Practice
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[Resource] Black Midwives Used to be at the Forefront of U.S. Maternity Care
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[Recording] Live Session: Week 6 (11/3/23) (121:53)
Module 7: Getting Proximate to Communities of Color
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[Assignment Due] Community Member Interviews
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[Assigned Reading] Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination, Chapter 4
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[Assigned Reading] Ella Baker and Group-Centered Leadership, The Center for Better Schools
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[Recording] Live Session: Week 7 (11/10/23) (136:19)
Module 8: Reflections and Actions
