Dr Amanda Joy Calhoun “Promoting Wellness for Black Men and Black Boys” sponsored APA Foundation

Amanda Joy Calhoun, MD, MPH takes a deeper dive into the amazing work she is doing on the other end of spectrum around mental health care.
Dr. Amanda Calhoun has seen it herself in hospitals around the country. “I was very upset in how bold I felt a lot of the anti-Black, racist statements I’d heard were since really starting as a medical student, frankly, and how common it was and how public it was behind hospital walls,” she said. Calhoun, a child psychiatry fellow at Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine, said she was thinking about the effects of medical racism on patient outcomes when an idea popped into her head: what if medical professionals wore body cameras to provide documentation and create accountability? “I felt like these people really feel comfortable saying this and it really is going unchecked. People who hear it are either laughing along and think it’s fine or they’re afraid to report it because it’s your word against theirs,” she said. “There’s a lot of power dynamics there.” written by Brian Zahn, New Haven Register.
You can hear more about “Prioritizing Mental Health in Our Community: Promoting Wellness for Black Men and Black Boys” sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association Foundation
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