IN THE MEDIA
February 15, 2023, Forbes
But a recent paper in the Stanford Technology Law Review examines how some compassionate medical release decisions for incarcerated people were guided by a practice that lead to systemic underdiagnosis and under-staging of CKD in Black people.
January 16, 2023, Loomis Chaffee
As Dr. Tsai spoke about health inequality at the Martin Luther King Day convocation, a screen behind her showed these and other stats: Black and Hispanic populations have higher exposure to 13 out of 14 main pollutants; they are twice as likely to live less than two miles from toxic waste sites. And she talked about applying critical race theory to medical care.
January 9, 2023, National Association of Science Writers
The National Association of Science Writers congratulates Genevive Bjorn, Izzy Bloom and Jennifer Tsai, Melba Newsome, and Shady Grove Oliver on receiving the latest NASW Diversity Reporting Grants to pursue their freelance reporting projects.
December 28, 2022, Connecticut Magazine
Selected from nominations of readers and Connecticut Magazine staff, this year’s 40 Under 40 collection of influential young people is changing the game in Connecticut and beyond.
November 2022, STATNews
STAT set out to celebrate the unheralded heroes of science and medicine, poring over hundreds of nominations from across North America in search for the next generation of scientific superstars. We were on the hunt for the most impressive doctors and researchers on the cusp of launching their careers, but not yet fully independent.
This year, as in past years, we’ve found inspiring stories and innovative research. All are blazing new trails as they attempt to answer some of the biggest questions in science and medicine.
May, 2022, The Boston Globe
See how this physician, activist, and educator is advancing health equity and anti-racism in medicine
May 30, 2022
This episode centers the roles of reproductive justice and anti-racist action in rectifying inequities faced by Black and Indigenous birthing persons. This discussion is hosted by Naomi Fields, MD, Chioma Onuoha, and Victor Lopez-Carmen MPH, as they interview Dr. Joia Crear-Perry—a physician, policy expert, and highly sought-after birth equity and racial health disparities expert—and Dr. Katy B. Kozhimannil—the Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Rural Health Research Center
December 1, 2021
Jennifer Tsai, a hospital resident at Yale School of Medicine, is a physician activist and educator advancing health equity and anti-racism in medicine. Her research has uncovered harms of race-based tools like kidney function tests, racial differences in opioid addiction treatment and other ways medical techniques perpetuate healthcare disparities.
ANTIRACISM IN MEDICINE SERIES – EPISODE 11 – RACISM, REDLINING, AND THE PATH TOWARDS RECONCILIATION
October 11, 2021
This episode is part of a 3-part series on Race, Place, and Health. In this episode, we invite Mr. Richard Rothstein, distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and acclaimed author of the book, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, and Professor Fernando De Maio, PhD director of research and data use at the AMA’s Center for Health Equity, professor of sociology at DePaul University, and co-editor of the recently published book, Unequal Cities: Structural Racism and the Death Gap in America’s Largest Cities, to share their expertise on structural racism, neighborhood segregation, and health inequities.
THE BLACK BOX BREAKERS:
BLOWING THE LID OFF OF BIOLOGICAL ESSENTIALISM IN MEDICINE
October 2021, GROW Magazine, Kavin Senapathy
“There’s so much to investigate beyond mere genetics that could explain the stark disparities in disease and death rates,” says Jennifer Tsai, an emergency medicine physician, BLM activist, and sometimes street medic, who has championed antiracism in medical education and research for years.
ANTIRACISM IN MEDICINE SERIES – EPISODE 13 – CENTERING ASIAN AMERICANS: RACISM, VIOLENCE, AND HEALTH
September 21, 2021
This episode is about racism faced by Asian-Americans, why it often goes unrecognized, and how we can work to rectify these wrongs. The team interviews Thu Quach, PhD, an epidemiologist and galvanizing leader who has led the Asian Health Services (Oakland, CA) in addressing racial disparities in COVID-19, and Tung Nguyen, MD, a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a nationally-renowned health disparities researcher. Our inspiring guests help us to contextualize struggles faced by Asian-Americans even as they outline and energize within us a path forward – together.
November 24, 2021
The Health Department today announced the formation of the Coalition to End Racism in Clinical Algorithms (CERCA). Flowing from the Board of Health’s landmark resolution (PDF) declaring racism a public health crisis, CERCA was formed to end the inclusion of race adjustment in clinical algorithms. The Coalition advances the Department’s anti-racism work and is expected to advance racial justice in health care for New Yorkers.
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November 22, 2021
Writing in the journal eClinicalMedicine, they estimate that if the most widely used eGFR equation did not include a race adjustment, 31,000 more Black Americans would become eligible for kidney transplant consideration, 300,000 more would qualify for a nephrologist referral, and 3.3 million more would reach the threshold for stage 3 chronic kidney disease.
June 29, 2021
The American Medical Association (AMA) today announced the members of the search committee tasked with finding the new editor in chief of JAMA and JAMA Network™. Selecting search committee members is part of phase one of a four-phase search process that also includes nominating and recruiting candidates, interviews with search committee members, and presentations of vision statements by finalists. Interested applicants can provide their CV/qualifications to JAMAeditorCV@ama-assn.org.
May 6, 2021
“It's really incredible to be recognized and to have this award exist,” Tsai said. “I think there's so much to be done in medicine, in health care, in relation to anti racism and social justice. It's not always seen as a part of a physician’s responsibility or part of our training.”
March 15, 2021
The National Minority Quality Forum is a research and educational organization dedicated to ensuring that high-risk racial and ethnic populations and communities receive optimal health care. This nonprofit, nonpartisan organization integrates data and expertise in support of initiatives to eliminate health disparities.
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October 28, 2020
“Prestigious publications continue to allow research that [uses] problematic versions of race in their research,” Tsai said. “They still allow that to be published, which means this kind of data and this kind of thinking is continually generated and perpetuated.”
July 3, 2020, The New York Times, Katherine J. Wu
“Death is not the only outcome,” Dr. Dean said. And people marginalized by race, ethnicity and social standing will inevitably bear more of the disease burden than others, Dr. Tsai added. “The risk and the mortality is going to be passed on to the most vulnerable, no matter who gets infected first,” she said.
RACISM, RATHER THAN FACTS, DROVE U.S. CORONAVIRUS TRAVEL BANS
May 16, 2020, The Intercept, Joe Penney
“There’s a clear connection between xenophobia and ideas of the source and danger of threats, and how much more easily that maps onto negativity in China and foreignness, and how much less likely it is to map on to ideas of Europe and whiteness,” Tsai said.
April 12, 2020, Brown Alumni Magazine, Tim Murphy
There’s no biological definition of race—yet race-based assumptions are so baked into medical training that would-be doctors have to learn them to pass their national board exams. Brown med students are working to change that.