6th Annual Harold Jordan Lecture celebrating Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice 6/7 | Deidre Anglin, PhD
"Infusing DEI in our Research Programs: An Example Studying the Social Patterning of Psychosis"
About the Speaker:
Deidre Anglin, PhD Associate Professor, Psychology City University of New York
Dr. Deidre Anglin is Associate Professor of Psychology in the Clinical Psychology PhD Program at The City College of the City University of New York with specialized training in psychiatric epidemiology from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Anglin directs the Clinical and Social Epidemiology (CASE) lab at CUNY leading projects focused on identifying social determinants of psychosis risk in racial and ethnic minoritized populations. She is internationally recognized for her published work and expertise in this area featured in JAMA Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, and Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Anglin serves on several editorial boards and is an Associate Editor for Schizophrenia Bulletin. She is the inaugural recipient for the award for sustained contributions to social justice given by the Society for Research in Psychopathology and recipient of the Hoch award given by the American PsychoPathological Association for her distinguished work in the field of Diversity and Inequity in Mental Health.
Objectives:
The activity is designed to help the learner
• Identify 2 ways to diversify your research or training program to make it more equitable inclusive and just • Describe the ways structural racism has contributed to ethnoracial inequities across the psychosis spectrum • Identify neighborhood and community factors that may be protective for those at high risk for psychosis
About The Harold Jordan Lecture Celebrating Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice:
In 1964, Harold Jordan, M.D., became the first African American resident at VUMC, where he maintained a clinical appointment until 2016. He went on to serve as the Chair of Psychiatry and Dean of the School of Medicine at Meharry Medical College. He also served as the Assistant Commissioner for Psychiatric Services and the Commissioner of Mental Health and Mental Retardation in Tennessee. In fact, one of the buildings on the campus for the Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (DIDDs) is named after him based on his contributions.
In 2019, the Harold Jordan Diversity and Inclusion Lecture was established by the VUMC Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department to honor his contributions to the field of psychiatry, mental health services in the state of Tennessee, and to our department and neighboring Meharry Medical College. In 2019, the inaugural lecture was given by Lloyda Williamson, M.D., the current chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Meharry Medical College. She was a student during Dr. Jordan’s appointment as chair, and her lecture focused on the importance of increasing the number of Black psychiatrists, and encouraging recruitment, advocacy, and inclusion to combat disparities in professional representation. In 2020, Francis Lu, M.D., presented on tools for culturally competent care in the DSM-5, including the outline for cultural formulation and the cultural formulation interview.
In 2020, the leadership of the Department felt an increased obligation as providers of mental health care to address additional issues around social justices, implicit and explicit bias, and structural racism that remain pervasive within foundational policies and institutions of our country including STEM education, healthcare delivery and access, and specifically mental health care, to name a few. The impact of these destructive deep-rooted institutional policies as they relate to mental health care have also been highlighted in many venues in recent months including by the APA and AACP, and AACAP. Indeed, long-standing issues of racism, segregation, poverty, exposure to violence including police violence, food and housing insecurity, and criminalization of mental health, are deeply linked to increased risk for, and morbidity and mortality from, mental illness and therefore affect us profoundly as mental health care providers.
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences condemns behaviors, practices, and policies that perpetuate racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and other issues that target members of our community. Such discrimination and bigotry unjustly contribute to medical and psychological morbidity, economic inequality, and mortality. The Department is committed to ending these behaviors, practices and policies by providing an inclusive and supportive environment for our faculty, staff, and trainees, and also advocating for change in our community to facilitate better care and outcomes for our patients.
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This talk is sponsored by the Luton and Orr Lecture Funds Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences This educational activity received no commercial support.
