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How academia should respond to racism

Structural racism in academia and academic medicine is destructive to science and society. To deny its existence is to fertilize the soil in which it thrives. Uprooting it demands, at the very least, a fundamental transformation in institutional education, policies, practices and resource allocation with sustained anti-racist actions.

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Fig. 1: The framework for an anti-racism action plan.

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Gray, D.M., Joseph, J.J., Glover, A.R. et al. How academia should respond to racism. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 17, 589–590 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41575-020-0349-x

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