In MedPage Today, Malchiah Blamon, a senior computer science major at GW Engineering, co-authored an opinion piece alongside Maranda C. Ward, an associate professor in GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Deidre Boakye, a senior public health major at GW, and Olanrewaju Falusi, a pediatrician and attending physician at Children’s National Hospital. The article, “Anti-Racist Care: A New Quality Metric?,” argues that equity and accountability must be built into patient care and highlights how institutional structures hinder this, as evidenced by a two-part training they conducted at GW.
Here is an excerpt from the article: “Our data revealed that while awareness and intent to practice anti-racist care are strong, the infrastructure to support them is weak. In particular, learners shared that they are part of a workforce ready for change but constrained by structural design.”
Read the full article on MedPage Today.