Module I: Structures & Self: Advancing Equity and Justice in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare

Course Information

Course Development & Description

Structures & Self: Advancing Equity and Justice in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare is a learner-led, justice-informed curriculum designed to teach clinical learners to consider how systems of power and legacies of structural oppression impact their care for patients. Learners will consider how to leverage their privilege to create change on a clinical, community, and systemic level.Led by 

Zoë

 Julian, MD, MPH, Structures and Self is also the result of transdisciplinary, community-engaged curriculum development process, employing novel methods of collaboration, transparency, and accountability that center Black lived experiences and scholarship. The core development team consisted of Black health professions educators, clinicians, and learners from family medicine, nursing, midwifery, and public health, as well as obstetrics and gynecology and family planning: Maisha Davis, MD, MPH; Talita Oseguera, CNM, WHNP; Ariel Hart, MPH; Sanithia Williams, MD; and 

Biftu

 Mengesha, MD, MAS. This team also worked in paid partnership with Elizabeth Dawes Gaye of Sisu Consulting, as well as reproductive and birth justice advocates of Black Women Birthing Justice, with continuous support from the staff of Innovating Education in Reproductive Health. See the acknowledgments section below for all our critical partners and mentors in this work.

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IERH acknowledges the importance of inclusive language as a component of patient-centered care and we are working to improve our content. Read more here.

Sincerest gratitude to the reproductive and birth justice advocates, consultants, core development team, advisors, and production teams for their critiques and contributions to the development of this series.

Advocates

Black Women Birthing Justice (BWBJ)

Consultants

Elizabeth Dawes Gay – Sisu Social Justice Consulting

Core development team

Maisha Davis, MD, MPHAriel Hart, MPH, MD/PhD CandidateZoë Julian, MD, MPHBiftu Mengesha, MD, MASTalita Oseguera, RN, MS, CNM/WHNP CandidateSanithia Williams, MD

Advisors

Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MASAndrea Jackson, MD, MASMonica McLemore, RN, MPH, PhDJody Steinauer, MD, MAS

Executive Producers: Innovating Education in Reproductive Health

Aliza AdlerStefanie Boltz, MPPCassandra Carver, MPAJessie ChienFelisa Preskill, MPPAmanda Sawyer, MADirector of Photography, Kyle VanAukerPost-production by BAYCAT Studios