Resources for Residents and Fellows

Guide on DEI and Antiracism in GSO

Welcome to the Department of Gynecologic Surgery & Obstetrics (GSO)'s curated list of resources related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of women's healthcare. 

Podcasts

TED Talks

• Dorothy Roberts: The Problem with Race-Based Medicine (2016)
• Kimberlé Crenshaw: The Urgency of Intersectionality (2016)
• Wanda Irving: How the US Medical Community Fails Black Mothers (2020)
• Elizabeth Howell: How We Can Improve Maternal Healthcare - Before, During, and After Pregnancy (2018)
• David R. Williams: How Racism Makes Us Sick (2016)
• Cheryl Holder: The Link Between Climate Change, Health, and Poverty (2020)
• Miriam Zoila Pérez: How Racism Harms Pregnant Women - And What Can Help (2016)

Books

• Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 
• Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
• Necessary Conversations: Understanding Racism As a Barrier to Achieving Health Equity
• The Political Determinants of Health
• Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
• Pain and Prejudice: How the Medical System Ignores Women - And What We Can Do About It
• Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
• Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
• Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Healthcare for Native American Women

Graphic Medicine Collection [located in the School of Medicine Library]

• List of graphic medicine titles relating to women, maternal, and child health can be found here.

UNLV Guides

Women in Medicine

• A guide to women in medicine resources and the history of women in medicine

Racism in Medicine and Healthcare 

• A guide to anti-racist resources at UNLV and beyond to promote racial and ethnic equity in medicine and healthcare

Medical Humanities

• Resources to explore and learn about the interdisciplinary topic of health & medical humanities

Articles

• PBS: Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States (January 29, 2016)
• Elle: How Serena Williams Saved Her Own Life (April 5, 2022)
• Policy Lab: Black Breastfeeding Matters: Mitigating Racial Inequities in Child Health Outcomes (August 3, 2022)
• Folio: Reproductive Control of Indigenous Women Continues Around the World, Say Survivors and Researchers (June 27, 2022) 
• PBS: Racial Disparities Persist for Breastfeeding Moms. Here's Why (August 29, 2019)

National Organizations

• Black Mamas Matter Alliance
• National Birth Equity Collaborative
• National Association to Advance Black Birth
• Black Coalition for Safe Motherhood
• Every Mother Counts
• The Black ObGyn Project

Local and State Organizations

• Nevada Minority Health and Equity Coalition
• Statewide Maternal and Child Health Coalition
• Make It Work Nevada
• Kijiji Sisterhood
• Wild West Access Fund of Nevada

Trainings

• Implicit Association Test (Project Implicit)
• Diversity and Resiliency Institute of El Paso
• Right to Be (formerly Hollaback!) 

Community Resources and Engagement Opportunities

• Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada
• Department of Health and Human Services, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Section, Division of Public and Behavioral Health
• Black Infant Health