Article on creating and sustaining department-level action to shift culture and encourage antiracist work.

Structural racism is embedded within the structure and function of academic medical institutions.

Although many institutions have begun to incorporate racial justice within academic medicine, it needs to be integral to every discipline and all aspects of medical education, research, and health system practice.

Authors Ha D, Ghebrendrias S, Meadows A, LaCoursiere DY, Lewis A, Lawson M, Morales M, Gyamfi-Bannerman C, Brubaker L.
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