Dr. King’s legacy and commitment to civil rights and eliminating inequities has influenced the fields of medicine and public health. At the Convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights held in Chicago in March 1955\, Dr. King declared: “Of all the forms of in equality\, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane.” In a 1961 annual report entitled “Equality Now: The President Has the Powe r\,” Dr. King called attention to “a considerable amount of discrimination” with regard to health and hospitalization. Consistent with what we might t oday describe as an antiracist stance\, Dr. King influenced the fields of m edicine and public health by being among the voices to suggest and champion specific changes in programs and policies that could reduce racial inequit y in social determinants of health and health more broadly. This panel of W ashU Medicine leaders will reflect on how Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr’s Leg acy has impacted their practice as leaders in medicine and/or biomedical sc ience.
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