The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated health disparities along racial and ethnic lines. In response, healthcare organizations are reexamining their role in contributing to these inequities and ...

An "implicit bias" training session required by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer encourages health care workers to admit they that are biased, and teaches them that Black people, overweight women and ...

Dana Williams, top, and Khalyson McDuffie, doulas with Birth in Color, a Virginia group that offers doula services for pregnant patients of color and training for local maternal health care workers to ...

Last week, Dr. Tamika Cross, a young Black OBGYN practicing in Texas, was barred from helping a sick passenger aboard a Delta flight because members of the crew refused to acknowledge her as a medical ...

(THE CONVERSATION) There is increasing evidence that implicit bias – non-conscious attitudes toward specific groups – is a source of racial inequities in certain aspects of health care, and lawmakers ...

While implicit bias trainings for healthcare providers have exploded in prevalence and popularity, most have flawed methodology and multiple translational gaps that may compromise their impact, a ...

The Implicit Association Test works by asking participants to categorize groups of people with "good" words like "nice" or "laughter" and "bad" words like "nasty" or "rotten." Its results are ...

Researchers found that health care professionals who refer patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to pulmonary rehabilitation have a negative bias toward smoking and a positive ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In a news conference, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the results of a new Department of Justice investigation. The investigation looks at implicit bias among ...

For this segment of the training, you will receive one contact hour of credit. When combined with the live session in January, you will receive three contact hours. This one-hour segment includes ...

Countless times, Kenda Sutton-El, a Virginia doula, has witnessed her Black pregnant clients being dismissed or ignored by clinicians. One woman was told by doctors that swelling, pain and warmth in ...