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ARTICLE: Using a structural competency framework to teach structural racism in pre-health education

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Metzl, JM, Petty JP, Olowojobab, OV. Using a structural competency framework to teach structural...

OPINION-ESSAY: Repeal the Dickey Amendment to Address Polarization Surrounding Firearms in the Unite

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Forces against the funding blockade put in place by the Dickey Amendment in 1996 have grown more vocal...

ARTICLE: Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Jonathan M. Metzl MD, PhD, and Kenneth T. MacLeish PhD Four assumptions frequently arise in the...

ARTICLE: Stop Using Psychiatry to Sell Guns

It’s enough to make a psychiatrist cringe. Speaking just days after a 17-year-old student killed eight classmates and two teachers at...

ARTICLE: I’m a Psychiatrist. Making Gun Violence About Mental Health Is a Crazy Idea | POLITICO

Before the initial shock wore off in the aftermath of yet another horrific American mass shooting—before we knew about the extent of the...

On Censorship and Scientific Integrity in Difficult Times

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words.” This was the headline of a December 15th Washington Post story...

ARTICLE: Developing and Evaluating an Innovative Structural Competency Curriculum for Pre-Health Stu

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Petty JP, Metzl JM, Keys M. Developing and Evaluating an Innovative Structural Competency Curriculum...

OP-ED: When the Shooter is White | The Washington Post

In the hours and days following the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, politicians and many media outlets reflexively described...

ARTICLE: Queer Frontiers in Medicine: A Structural Competency Approach

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Donald, Cameron A. MS; DasGupta, Sayantani MD, MPH; Metzl, Jonathan M. MD, PhD; Eckstrand, Kristen L....

ARTICLE: New Medicine for the U.S. Health Care System: Training Physicians for Structural Interventi

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Hansen, H, Metzl, JM. New Medicine for the U.S. Health Care System: Training Physicians for...

OP-ED: Guns in Donald Trump’s Chicago | The Conversation

Donald Trump’s new outreach to “minority voters” is already showing signs of strain. Soon after the shooting death of Nykea Aldridge,...

OPINION-ESSAY: Let’s Talk About Guns, But Stop Stereotyping The Mentally Ill

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Restricting gun rights for people with mental illness is the one gun-control initiative that...