Race, US Healthcare, and Early Black Physicians, with Dr. Benjamin Chrisinger, 4/10

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The Center for Humanities invites you to a special conversation on 4/10 with Dr. Benjamin Chrisinger from the Department of Community Health at Tufts. Dr. Chrisinger will be joined by Dr. Kerri Greenidge and Dr. Kendra Field. This talk will explore the new data visualization that explores racial inequalities in the US healthcare system. 

Since 1906, the American Medical Association (AMA) has regularly published a Directory of all qualified physicians in the United States. From 1906-1940, Directories also identified the race of Black physicians with a label of “col.”, for “colored.” This practice was strongly opposed by Black medical leaders of the time, and contributed to the further exclusion of Black physicians from medical training, practice, and professional communities. Until now, physician records from these directories were only available in hard copy or as PDFs, making it difficult to visualize and explore patterns and trends. Dr. Chrisinger's project extracted physician entries from the first American Medical Directory and various US states to consolidate this historical data in order to create new data maps in regards to U.S. Healthcare. Dr. Chrisinger will be sharing some of his methodologies and findings in this event. 

This event is open to all. For questions, contact: humanities@tufts.edu.