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