The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health

Healthcare is one of America's most dysfunctional and confusing industries, and most of the system seems designed to keep people sick. While we may know that racism impacts health outcomes, most of us don't know exactly how or why--and we certainly don't know what to do about it.

Dr. Monica Wang is a leading expert in health equity research and Chair of the Narrative Office at the BU Center for Antiracist Research. Her childhood experience as a bussing student in Boston's METCO program shaped her decision to pursue a career in health equity--and her first-hand interviews with other folks of color catalyzed a larger realization for her: we need resources to show people how we can improve this issue directly within our own communities.

With this goal in mind, Dr. Wang tells the stories of three women of color alongside her own:

• Marielis, a first-generation Dominican America college student from the Bronx
• Dorothy, a semi-retired African American woman living in rural Alabama
• Rosa, an Indigenous social worker who grew up on the Texas-Mexico border