October 2020

PSYCHIATRY

COVID-19, RACISM AND THE UNIQUE BURDENS ON THE BLACK COMMUNITY

Featuring: Aderonke Pederson, MD

Episode Summary

COVID-19 has not only uncovered significant health inequalities, but it has also shed light on how racism has impacted the health of minority populations even before the pandemic. In this episode of Better Edge Aderonke Pederson, MD, psychiatrist and instructor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern Medicine, discusses how COVID-19 and civil unrest have had a disproportional impact on Black Americans. She shares how mental health can be reformed to better serve patients in underserved communities and provides recommendations for physicians when treating Black patients.
Aderonke Pederson, MD work focuses on mental health stigma specifically in ethnic minority populations, exploring the content of stigma to inform building interventions that reduce mental health stigma particularly among black ethnic minorities. She has particular interest in the intersection of race, religion, stigma and migration. 

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