Presentation Points
Intersectionality
- Encapsulates ideas evolving historically within Black, Latina, feminist, queer, postcolonial, and indigenous activism and scholarly work that articulates the complex factors and processes that shape human lives
Intersectionality in Health
- A framework that focuses on the ways multiple axes of inequality intersect and compound at macro and micro levels to produce a broad range of unequal health outcomes
- These interactions occur within a context of connected systems and structures of power (e.g., law, politics, government, media) that implicitly or explicitly promote interdependent forms of privilege and oppression
Addressing Intersectionality in Health
- Considering Gender Issues
- Blanket exclusions in trials
- Thinking Critically About the Data
- Inclusive and High-Quality care for everyone!
The Future: Aspire to be able to
- Acknowledge to patients the limitations in current evidence and work toward closing these gaps in our knowledge
- Openly acknowledge and empathize with patients’ gender and/or racial trauma and appropriately manage this
- Establish diverse health care teams and systems that can combat gender and racial trauma
- Foster a positive working environment, where diverse individuals can thrive
- Assemble research teams that are diverse and include intersectionality expertise to deliver high-quality research that serves individuals, communities, and populations
