Resources - Additional

Orientation    Assignments    Videos    Resources

• URMC Anti-Racism Action Plan
• D & C Article about Redlining by Justin Murphy
• ACT Rochester Curated Reports on Poverty
• Common Ground Health Community Health Reports
• The Children’s Agenda Reports on Advocacy Work in Children’s Health and Education
• Side-by-Side Comparison Map – Historic Map vs Current
• Living With Open-Air Drug Markets - Rochester, NY – A 10-minute documentary highlighting the problems and solutions within one of Rochester’s most drug-ridden and culturally rich neighborhoods.
• Refugees in Rochester
• Finger Lakes Addiction Resource

• Project Believe
  Children's Visions and Voices was a collaboration between the University of Rochester, former Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., and Enrico Fermi School #17. It is a heart-tugging collection of photos and essays produced by 6th graders who were asked to depict health in the neighborhood. The children explain to us why "dangerous dogs," "highway onramps," and other such things are the important determinants of health and disease.

• How Rochester’s Growing City and Suburbs Excluded Black Residents – By Justin Murphy of the Democrat and Chronicle
• Can Removing Highways Fix American Cities? By Nadja Popovich, Josh Williams and Denise Lu – NYTimes interactive piece on reimagining urban living spotlighting Rochester
• "When Disparity Becomes Despair – What Kids and Kidneys Demand from All of Us in Response to Racism in America" – Dr. Ray Bignall’s June 3, 2020 URMC Peds Grand Rounds
• "Over A Way That with Tears Has Been Watered: How Academic Medicine is Responding to Systemic Injustice" – Dr. Ray Bignall’s May 12, 2021 URMC Peds Grand Rounds
• Project Implicit: “Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition – thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a ‘virtual laboratory’ for collecting data on the Internet.”
• New York State Education Department – comparative tool for school data across New York State
• Black-Owned Businesses in Rochester

The Hoekelman Center has a community/public health library. You can check out books during PLC or anytime. Be sure to stop by the library after your PLC Orientation.

Readings

• "What Will it Take? Fulfilling the Promise of Diversity in Medicine." Rochester Medicine. 2016. Vol. 2.
• Andrew Aligne, M.D., M.P.H. "Social Action for Busy Professionals: Changing the World in an Hour." – Community-Based resident projects toolkit. Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Publishing Inc., 1998.
• Carole Jenny, M.D., M.B.A., James E. Crawford-Jakubiak, M.D., and Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect. – "The Evaluation of Children in the Primary Care Setting When Sexual Abuse Is Suspected." American Academy of Pediatrics 2014; 132; 2.
• David L. Olds, Ph.D.; Harriet Kitzman, R.N., Ph.D.; Michael D. Knudtson, M.S.; Elizabeth Anson, M.S.; Joyce A. Smith, Ph.D; Robert Cole, Ph.D. "Effect of Home Visiting by Nurses on Maternal and Child Mortality." JAMA Pediatrics. 2014.472
• Michael K. Visick. "Pediatrics in the Community: Report." Pediatrics in the Review 1997;18;322.
• Robert F. Anda, M.D., M.S., and Vincent J. Felitti, M.D. – "ACE Study Handout."
• Other Readings of Interest