Buffalo Next: UB med school combats racism in health care

The Buffalo News reported on how UB’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is rewriting its curriculum to include anti-racism into its teaching. The school is working to diversify its faculty, provide anti-racism training and make several other changes that students recommended in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic, which took a disproportionate toll on communities of color. The story quoted Jennifer A. Meka, PhD, director of the Jacobs School’s Medical Education and Educational Research Institute and associate dean for medical education, who said the school is creating guidelines “to revise cases to better reflect the diverse population our local students will be working with.” Also interviewed for the story was Allison Brashear, MD, dean of the Jacobs School; Alan J. Lesse, MD, senior associate dean for medical curriculum; and Tatiana Amaye-Obu, a member of the Class of 2024. The article also appeared in the Marietta Daily Journal and the Rome News-Tribune, newspapers in Georgia.