In this episode, Sydnee covers the history of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment and how it affected modern attitudes about healthcare in the Black community. This episode features a special interview with Dr. Tina Sacks, a professor at UC Berkeley who will lend her expertise on topics like the Tuskegee study, racial inequities in health, and social determinants of health.
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Sources for this episode:
https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm
https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study
https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdfact-syphilis.htm
https://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/people/tina-sacks
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/17/opinions/african-americans-covid-vaccine-sacks/index.html
https://www.today.com/health/what-implicit-bias-invisible-racism-hurts-black-women-doctor-s-t189105
https://methods.sagepub.com/case/understanding-life-history-tuskegee-syphilis-study-descendant
