Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences: Antiracism and Health Equity
Books: Issues Present and Past
Research Literature
Avant, N. D., & Gillespie, G. L. (2019). Pushing for health equity through structural competency and implicit bias education: A qualitative evaluation of a racial/ethnic health disparities elective course for pharmacy learners. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching & Learning, 11(4), 382–393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cptl.2019.01.013 UB Libraries Link
Chisholm-Burns, M., Spivey, C., Gatwood, J., Wiss, A., Hohmeier, K., & Erickson, S. (2017). Evaluation of racial and socioeconomic disparities in medication pricing and pharmacy access and services. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 74(10), 653–668. https://doi.org/10.2146/ajhp150872 UB Libraries Link
Lorenc, T., Petticrew, M., Welch, V., & Tugwell, P. (2013). What types of interventions generate inequalities? Evidence from systematic reviews. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 67(2), 190–193. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2012-201257 UB Libraries Link
Martin, A., Downing, J., Maden, M., Fleeman, N., Alfirevic, A., Haycox, A., & Pirmohamed, M. (2017). An assessment of the impact of pharmacogenomics on health disparities: A systematic literature review. Pharmacogenomics, 18(16), 1541-1550. https://doi.org/10.2217/pgs-2017-0076 UB Libraries Link
Nooruddin, M., Scherr, C., Friedman, P., Subrahmanyam, R., Banagan, J., Moreno, D., Sathyanarayanan, M., Nutescu, E., Jeyaram, T., Harris, M., Zhang, H., Rodriguez, A., Shaazuddin, M., Perera, M., & Tuck, M. (2020). Why African Americans say "no": A study of pharmacogenomic research participation. Ethnicity & Disease, 30(Suppl 1), 159-166. doi:10.18865/ed.30.S1.159 Publisher provided PDF UB Libraries Link
Pednekar, P., & Peterson, A. (2018). Mapping pharmacy deserts and determining accessibility to community pharmacy services for elderly enrolled in a State Pharmaceutical Assistance Program. PloS One, 13(6), e0198173–e0198173. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198173 UB Libraries Link
Qato, D. M., Daviglus, M. L., Wilder, J., Lee, T., Qato, D., & Lambert, B. (2014). 'Pharmacy deserts' are prevalent in Chicago's predominantly minority communities, raising medication access concerns. Health Affairs (Project Hope), 33(11), 1958–1965. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2013.1397 UB Libraries Link
Thomson, K., Hillier-Brown, F., Walton, N., Bilaj, M., Bambra, C., & Todd, A. (2019). The effects of community pharmacy-delivered public health interventions on population health and health inequalities: A review of reviews. Preventive Medicine, 124, 98–109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.04.003 UB Libraries Link
Broadening the Scope
Acknowledging that this is only a snapshot of complex and overlapping issues of race and health equity, the following PubMed search broadly collects publications at the crossroads of pharmacy and social justice issues including race and antiracism, decolonization, gender discrimination, gender identity, sexual orientation, ableism, and cultural competency. It is limited to works published in the last five years. At the time the search was built, it retrieved 192 results, but as time moves forward and new research is added, this number will change.
Additional Research Guides
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News and Other Resources
Anthony, C. (2019, June 27). How black pharmacists are closing the cultural gap in health care. KHN. https://khn.org/news/black-pharmacists-culturally-competent-health-care-diversity/
Bonner, L. (2021, October 1). Increase in Black pharmacists comes almost entirely from Black women, according to new data. Pharmacy Today, 27(10). https://www.pharmacytoday.org/article/S1042-0991(21)00728-3/fulltext
Associated article from JAMA Network Open
Edney, H. T. (2020, November). Through the roof prescription drug prices hit communities of color the hardest. The Louisiana Weekly. https://search-proquest-com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/newspapers/through-roof-prescription-drug-prices-hit/docview/2459432968/se-2?accountid=14169
Gonsalves, G., Kapczynski, A., & Herman, D. (2021, February 26). We'll never reach herd immunity if we don't vaccinate more non-White people. Washington Post. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A653135681/AONE?u=sunybuff_main&sid=AONE&xid=89ff1e7a
Kim, S. R., Schumaker, E., Nichols, M., & Simon, E. (2021, March 6). ‘Pharmacy deserts’ are new front in the race to vaccinate for COVID-19. ABC News. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/pharmacy-deserts-front-race-vaccinate-covid-19/story?id=76201564
Kingson, J. A. (2021, January 7). The growth of “pharmacy deserts”. Axios. https://www.axios.com/pharmacy-deserts-cities-prescriptions-45c32271-37ac-4105-b1bb-e2d2436b88c1.html
Sutton, K. (Host). (2021, May 28). Vaccine Voices: Promoting Equity in Vaccine Access (No. 3) [Audio podcast episode]. In Beyond the White Coat. AAMC. https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/podcast-vaccinevoices-promoting-equity-vaccine-access
World Health Organization. (2020). (In)Equity 2.0: Addressing health inequalities in a digital world. https://www.who.int/europe/multi-media/item/culture-and-health-webinar-series-2020-(in)equity-2.0-addressing-health-inequalities-in-a-digital-world
In Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Education
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Antrim, A. (2021, December 6). Teaching systemic racism in pharmacy curriculum is essential to improving health equity. Pharmacy Careers, 15(2), 14-15. https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/teaching-systemic-racism-in-pharmacy-curriculum-is-essential-to-improving-health-equity
Butler, L. M., Arya, V., Nonyel, N. P., & Moore, T. S. (2021). Developing a framework to address health equity and racism within pharmacy education: Rx-HEART. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 85(6), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.5688/ajpe8590 UB Libraries Link
Kiles, T. M., Cernasev, A., Tran, B., & Chisholm-Burns, M. (2021). Effects of racial trauma on black Doctor of Pharmacy students. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 85(9). https://doi.org/10.5688/ajpe8558 UB Libraries Link
Kiles, T. M., Jasmin, H., Nichols, B., Haddad, R., & Renfro, C. P. (2020). A scoping review of active-learning strategies for teaching social determinants of health in pharmacy. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 84(11), 1482–1490. https://doi.org/10.5688/ajpe8241 UB Libraries Link
Robinson, K., Drame, I., Turner, M. R., & Brown, C. (2021). Antiracism Teaching in Pharmacy Education: Developing the "Upstreamist". American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 85(6), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.5688/ajpe8585 UB Libraries Link
Vyas, D., Ziegler, L., & Galal, S. M. (2021). A telehealth-based interprofessional education module focused on social determinants of health. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching & Learning, 13(8), 1067–1072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cptl.2021.06.012 UB Libraries Link
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