Medical Residents & Fellows

The following is just an example of some of the top subscription journals in obstetrics and gynecology to which the SOML provides access. If you are looking for a particular journal, please use the UNLV Libraries' Journals A-Z search.

If you are researching issues in maternal health, searching for information beyond clinical databases can be very helpful. Consider searching the following databases:

The SOML subscribes to several eBook providers. The following are links to some of the more prominent collections available. If you wish to see if the library has a particular title available, please use the UNLV Quick Search and limit to "books."

Databases allow you to search the content of multiple journals, conference proceedings, and sometimes even books, all at once. They are usually curated to cover a specific field or discipline of study. Topic-based searches, or searches that require multiple journal sources, are best-suited for these tools.

For More: A-Z List of Databases

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/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