How to Design an Anti-racist Study to Mitigate Scientific Racism

Monday, April 28, 2025

11:00am – 12:30pm HST

Location: Convention Center: 325

CE: 1.5

Leader(s)

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Kate Wallis, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, United States

Co-Leader(s)

Diana Montoya-Williams, MD MSHP (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Hanein Edrees, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Mercy Hospital
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, United States
Tanya Froehlich, MD, MS (she/her/hers)

Professor and Division Director, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Nia Heard-Garris, MD, MBA, MSc

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago/Northwestern University
CHICAGO, Illinois, United States
Salathiel Kendrick-Allwood, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor, Clinical Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Mableton, Georgia, United States
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Irene Loe, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine
SAN FRANCISCO, California, United States
Shruti Mittal, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Levine Children's Hospital
Matthews, North Carolina, United States
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Trevena Moore, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
University of Kansas Medical Center
Olathe, Kansas, United States
Silvia Pereira-Smith, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Adiaha Spinks-Franklin, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
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Purnima Valdez, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, North Carolina, United States

Disclosure(s):

Kate Wallis, MD, MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Diana Montoya-Williams, MD MSHP: Chiesi (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Consultant)

Hanein Edrees, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Tanya E. Froehlich, MD, MS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Nia J. Heard-Garris, MD, MBA, MSc: XNY Genes, LLC (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds)

Salathiel Renee' Kendrick-Allwood, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Irene M. Loe, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Shruti Mittal, MD: AAP (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Speaker Honorarium including speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness)

Trevena Moore, MD, MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Silvia Pereira-Smith, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Adiaha Spinks-Franklin, MD, MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Purnima T. Valdez, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Workshop Description: Anti-racist research aims to counter the legacy of scientific racism, which undermines the validity of scientific findings, and is relevant to everyone who conducts research related to humans. Members of our team conducted a systematic review of guidance on anti-racist research practices at each step of the research process. Then, a modified Delphi panel of 14 national experts reached consensus on critical elements of anti-racist research practices. In this workshop, facilitators will present these findings and assist attendees in workshopping: 1) a research question of interest or 2) a provided example research study idea.
Specifically, we will:
1. Define anti-racist research.
2. Present expert guidance on performing anti-racist research, focusing on initial stages of project design and study team development.
3. Ask participants to bring a nascent research project to discuss (or discuss example topics).
4. Guide participants in working through a structured worksheet, applying the first steps of anti-racist practices to their proposed project (e.g., research team formation, team culture, partnerships, and education; discussing concrete steps to find and build relationships with community partners). Participants will share their discussions in moderated breakout groups.
5. Present the importance of theoretical frameworks and share example frameworks that researchers may use to design their study.
6. In small groups, participants will discuss and share how to select and apply a relevant theoretical framework to their projects.
7. Participants will commit to action steps to make their own projects more anti-racist via electronic surveys; we will send automated commitment reminders 3 months later.

Learning Objectives:

Define anti-racist research and best practices as described in the literature and by consensus by experts
Apply principles of anti-racist research to the initial development of a research project, including how to bring together a research team with the required expertise and lived experience
Adapt a conceptual framework to a research project of interest to contextualize the construct of race as applicable