TY - JOUR
T1 - Negligence in biomedical research
T2 - an anti-racist approach for substance use researchers
AU - Lehman, Jonathan
AU - Balangoy, Danniella
AU - Mejia, Angie P.
AU - Cardenas-Iniguez, Carlos
AU - Marek, Scott
AU - Randolph, Anita C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2024 Lehman, Balangoy, Mejia, Cardenas-Iniguez, Marek and Randolph.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Racism is embedded in the fabric of society at structural, disciplinary, hegemonic, and interpersonal levels, working as a mechanism that drives health disparities. In particular, stigmatized views of substance use get entangled with racialization, serving as a tool to uphold oppressive systems. While national health institutions have made commitments to dismantle these systems in the United States, anti-racism has not been integrated into biomedical research practice. The ways in which substance use researchers use and interpret race data—without engaging in structural racism as a mechanism of health inequity—can only be described as inadequate. Drawing upon concepts from the Public Health Critical Race praxis, QuantCrit, and an anti-racism research framework, we recommend a set of guidelines to help biomedical researchers conceptualize and engage with race more responsibly in substance use research.
AB - Racism is embedded in the fabric of society at structural, disciplinary, hegemonic, and interpersonal levels, working as a mechanism that drives health disparities. In particular, stigmatized views of substance use get entangled with racialization, serving as a tool to uphold oppressive systems. While national health institutions have made commitments to dismantle these systems in the United States, anti-racism has not been integrated into biomedical research practice. The ways in which substance use researchers use and interpret race data—without engaging in structural racism as a mechanism of health inequity—can only be described as inadequate. Drawing upon concepts from the Public Health Critical Race praxis, QuantCrit, and an anti-racism research framework, we recommend a set of guidelines to help biomedical researchers conceptualize and engage with race more responsibly in substance use research.
KW - J-DEI
KW - antiracism
KW - critical race theory (CRT)
KW - equity
KW - racialization
KW - racism
KW - research
KW - substance use
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85201224218&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1401221
DO - 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1401221
M3 - Article
C2 - 39145167
AN - SCOPUS:85201224218
SN - 2296-2565
VL - 12
JO - Frontiers in Public Health
JF - Frontiers in Public Health
M1 - 1401221
ER -