Health Justice Scholarship is Personal
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About the video
This video features Dr. Brittney Francis and Dr. Marie Plaisime, two exceptional scholars at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.
Dr. Francis and Dr. Plaisime are both FXB Health & Human Rights Fellows in the STRIDE - Racial Justice Program studying the intersections of structural racism and their impacts on health.
The video spotlights what it means to be embedded in your work. Dr. Francis and Dr. Plaisime reflect on their scholarship and share their personal relationship with their research and training as public health and academic professionals.
Dr. Francis is a public health-trained Social Epidemiologist whose research focuses on the impact of maternal hypertension and perinatal health. Her work specifically looks at the social structures such as at the neighborhood level and how they further marginalize and impact the maternal health of Black women in the U.S. over their life course.
Dr. Plaisime is a public health-trained Medical Sociologist whose research focuses on how race and racism impact the clinical encounter and how that experience impacts the health of Black and Brown bodies. Dr. Plaisime looks at the role of medical providers, from nurses, to medical students, physicians, clinicians, etc. She also looks at the role of medical instruments and diagnostic tools and how algorithmic bias further segregates care.
Jake Ryann C. Sumibcay
Director, Producer and Editor
Aside from being a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard, I am also a student in a Digital Storytelling program. This spring, I was enrolled in a Digital Media course in which we learned an overview of a broad range of topics related to contemporary digital media. Culminating the course was a final project that was video-centric about any topic. I chose to create something that involved my work and also my friends. Something we all had in common was our relationship with our scholarship. As researchers, we are often in tension with the objectivity in science and being advocates for our work, especially when studying the intersections of racism and health. This video was created to give insight into having a personal relationship with our research and to view health from a much broader and more impactful perspective. I hope that this video gives you a feeling of curiosity and inspiration to make health a human right.
Acknowledgments
A special thank you to Dr. Brittney Francis and Dr. Marie Plaisime for sharing their passion and insights for this video project. Thank you also to Dr. Joven Julien and Dr. Bram Wispelwey for their special guest appearances. Thank you to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.