this art is . . .

about Health And Racial Disparities
Highlighting Actual Real Data (e.g., data published in scientific journals)
Hoping to Amplify Research on racial Disparities in obstetrics & gynecology
Helping (more people) Access Reproductive medicine Data
Holding us Accountable for Rectifying Disparities

Okay, enough with the acronyms. The project delves into hard things: racism, maternal morbidity and mortality, gynecological cancer. Beginning summer 2021, working with a group of creative undergraduate students, we set out to review the literature on racial disparities reported in the top Obstetrics & Gynecology journals from 2010-2021. We are creating data art based on the literature review.

Trees:Forest

The well-known idiom, “Don’t See the Forest for the Trees,” was a key quote in thinking about the obstetrics and gynecology data we worked with this past summer in the…

Half Hearted

Black patients are disproportionately more vulnerable to death during childbirth, even after evaluating confounding factors. This graphic features the most startling odds…

Alexander Brandfonbrener

Centering Whiteness

This movement piece focuses on the centering of whiteness as the “norm” in medical research through the use of white as the reference group. The duration of the piece…

Gillian Richard

An Inconceivable Blastocyst

One of the things that struck me during our review was just how many different studies identified large racial and ethnic disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality…

It’s in the Groundwater

Bayard Love and Deena Hayes-Greene of the Racial Equity Institute developed the groundwater approach metaphor to help build a practical understanding of structural racism. Our SURF group talked a lot about this metaphor, and…