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Learning Objective

After learners have recognized their privilege, they will identify ways to center a justice framework and structural analysis as a tool to promote optimal health outcomes.

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Personal Reflection Questions

1. What are three ways you can act at the institutional and/or individual level this week to become an agent of change?
2. What are some barriers you envision to becoming a change agent? How do you think you might overcome those barriers?
3. How will you encourage your peers and colleagues to also become change agents?

Resources

_{Community-informed models of perinatal and reproductive health services provision: a justice-centered paradigm toward equity among Black birthing communities}

_{Yo, is this racist?}

_{Black Women Birthing Justice}

_{Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice}

_{Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine and Health Justice}

_{Black Mamas Matter}

_{How do I … respond when I see racial abuse in public?}

_{Medical Legal Partnership}

_{White Coats for Black Lives}

_{Beyond Flexner}

_{Social Medicine Consortium}

_{Pod Save the People}

_{The Body is Not An Apology}

_{The New Jim Crow}

_{Disability Visibility Project}

_{Everyday Feminism}

Citations

_{Bronfenbrenner’s Social Ecological Model}

• _{Bronfenbrenner, Urie (1989). “Ecological systems theory”. In Vasta, Ross (ed.). Annals of Child Development: Vol. 6. London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. pp. 187–249.}