Mission

The Inclusion-Diversity Anti-Racism & Equity (I-DARE) Committee’s mission is to promote antiracism, equity, culturally and linguistically relevant, and inclusive pediatric health policies and practice in Maryland.

Vision

All Maryland children, youth, and families will receive culturally competent quality pediatric care, regardless of (but not limited to) their color, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, language, immigration, socioeconomic, or ability status.

Resources

• Updated Guidance on the Reporting of Race and Ethnicityin Medical and Science Journals
• Racial bias in pain assessment and treatmentrecommendations, and false beliefs about biologicaldifferences between blacks and whites
• The Impact of Racism on Child andAdolescent Health
• From race-based to race-conscious medicine: how anti-racistuprisings call us to act
• When Actions Speak Louder Than Words — Racism and SickleCell Disease
• A Critical Review of Current Evidence on MultipleTypes of Discrimination and Mental Health
• The art of medicine: Abolish race correction
• Syndemic vulnerability and the right to health 
• Syndemics: committing to a healthier future
• Syndemics and the biosocial conception of health
• Perspectives on Healthy Equity & Social Determinants of Health
• For Better Youth Mental Health, We Must Dismantle Structural Racism
• The Path to Better Childhoods
• Healing Racial Trauma Resources compiled by APA DIVISION 37’s Diverse, Racial, Ethnic and Multicultural Special Interest Group
• Healing Racial Trauma Resources
• Dismantling “Race” in Health Research
• Racism And Health
• Understanding and addressing the impact of structural racism on health is essential to building equity in health
• At the Intersection of Equity, Science, and Social Justice: An Inflection Point for Academic Medicine” Recorded Webinar
• Reducing Inequalities Between Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Adolescents and Cisgender, Heterosexual Adolescents
• A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty
• Measuring the Opportunity Gap for Children from Birth to Age Eight and Understanding Barriers to Access Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief
• Conceptualizing, Contextualizing, and Operationalizeing Race In Quantitative Health Sciences Research