In a article in Obstetrics & Gynecology, also known as the Green Journal, authors Tiffany L. Green, PhD, Jasmine Y. Zapata, MD, Heidi W. Brown, MD, MAS, and Nao Hagiwara, PhD address the limitations of existing implicit bias interventions as a strategy for achieving maternal health equity. Entitled “Rethinking Bias to Achieve Maternal Health Equity: Changing Organizations, Not Just Individuals,” the article focuses on how institutionally sanctioned racial stereotyping harms Black maternal health and marginalizes a key group in the fight for health equity—Black physicians. Finally, Green and colleagues provide strategies to address racial bias in perinatal health care and structural barriers impeding Black physicians’ success, addressing the importance of physician training and the physician pipeline to increasing equity and maternal health outcomes.
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