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Uché Blackstock

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New York City, The United States

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Dr. Uché Blackstock is a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in healthcare.

She appears on air regularly as an MSNBC medical contributor and is the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, as well as a former associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the former faculty director for recruitment, retention, and inclusion in the Office of Diversity Affairs at NYU School of Medicine.

Dr. Blackstock received both her undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University, making her and her twin sister, Oni, the first Black mother-daughter legacies from Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Blackstock currently lives in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York, with her two school-age children.

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Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

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“Today, studies show that your zip code is a much bigger determinant of health outcomes than your DNA.”
― Uché Blackstock, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

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“We are living in two Americas because of systemic racism.
I'm still angry that it took the savage murder of a Black man, George Floyd, by a white police officer for some white Americans to see the horror of racism.”
― Uché Blackstock, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

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“Yet recent research also shows that when communities have high rates of police brutality and negative interactions with the police, community members also have a distrust of health-care institutions.”
― Uché Blackstock, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

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