Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity’s Disability, Equity, and Mental Health Research Webinar Series: Framework for Understanding Structural Ableism in Health Care

In doing so, they’ll draw on writing by incapacity research and incapacity justice students and activists, which offers a lot of the premise for present understandings of ableism and associated techniques. They may also draw on ideas from neurodiversity idea (which affirms the experiences of neurodivergent individuals) and mad research (which heart the experiences of people that determine as mad, survivors of psychiatric hurt, and/or with associated experiences). They will then describe a sequence of key ideas for researching and dismantling structural ableism inside well being techniques. They will emphasize the necessity to heart individuals with lived expertise, contemplate energy and intersectionality, and transfer past the biomedical or particular person mannequin of incapacity to look at social and structural contexts.

Next, they’ll current recommendations for integrating this framework in the areas of apply, analysis, and policymaking inside psychological well being and habit companies. Lastly, they’ll focus on academic and occupational inequities in well being professions and the necessity to confront the institutional ableism that usually prevents disabled individuals from having energy over the well being techniques that disproportionately affect their lives.

About the audio system

Dielle Lundberg, M.P.H., (she/her or ze/hir) is a analysis fellow at Boston University School of Public Health and has accomplished the primary 12 months and a half as a doctorate pupil in Health Services on the University of Washington School of Public Health. Her private and skilled mission is to dismantle structural ableism in public well being and well being care and remodel well being analysis, apply, and training in ways in which heart disabled, neurodivergent, and mad views. As a disabled individual in public well being, Dielle views her function as assembly public well being and well being care stakeholders the place they’re at and inviting everybody (together with herself) on a journey to divest from ableism, cut back hurt, and make progress in direction of fairness. Dielle is a white transfeminine individual. She is disabled, neurodivergent, and mad. Her views on ableism in well being techniques are knowledgeable by her experiences with bodily incapacity, psychological sickness and psychiatrization (which she chooses to explain utilizing the language of insanity), and navigating psychological well being and habit companies.

Jessica Chen, Ph.D., (she/her) is an assistant professor on the University of Washington in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. She is a medical psychologist and a core investigator in the Department of Veterans Affairs. As a researcher and educational school member, Dr. Chen works to rework well being care techniques and enhance entry to equitable, high-quality psychological well being care. Beyond academia, Dr. Chen is a author who aspires to form cultural understandings of trauma and particular person and collective therapeutic. As an individual dwelling with incapacity, she is invested in and on a journey to divest from internalized ableism and ableism in the general public well being and well being care spheres.

About the Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity’s Disability, Equity, and Mental Health Research Webinar Series

The Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity is internet hosting a Disability, Equity, and Mental Health Research Webinar Series, which focuses on exploring the well being disparities skilled by individuals with incapacity. These embody disparities in psychological well being outcomes, which will be additional compounded for these with intersecting identities. This webinar sequence brings collectively researchers, advocates, and individuals with lived expertise to debate the intersection of incapacity, psychological well being, and race and ethnicity. There can be a particular emphasis on how incapacity intersects with different well being disparities populations to contribute to psychological well being outcomes and methods to extend fairness, accessibility, and inclusion and cut back disparities. Additionally, the sequence explores the notion of psychological well being situations as a incapacity and considers the viewpoints of these with lived expertise.

Registration

This webinar is free, however registration is required .