YJBM Special Series: Racism and Health – Episode 2: Interview with Dr. Monica Bell

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Although we typically cover topics that address the biomedical sciences, epidemiology, and healthcare practice, it is no secret that the systemic biases, residential segregation, violent responses to protesting, and further injustices that we see today alldrive healthcare inequality and inform the topics and methods of research/practice for our audience. In light of the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Elijah McClain, among others, we’ve decided to use our platform as an avenue of communication for esteemed researchers in the fields of policing, Law, and criminal justice. In this episode, Wes interviews Dr. Monica Bell regarding race and class segregation, police reform and abolition, and minimizing harm to marginalized communities within clinical and behavioral research. Dr. Bell also shares resources, frameworks, and major questions that motivate her work and give context to recent legislation and proposals. References and Resources (informal): The Wandering Officer https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-wandering-officer @BenGrunwald and @JohnMRappaport Anti-Segregation Policing https://www.nyulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/NYULawReview-Volume-95-Issue-3-Bell.pdf Twitter: @monicacbell Police Reform and the Dismantling of Legal Estrangement https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/area/center/liman/document/b.2054.bell.2150_rbbnaxd9.pdf Twitter: @monicacbell Reform and Abolition:Toward A Radical Imagination of Law https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3061917 Twitter: @orangebegum Abolition Constitutionalism https://harvardlawreview.org/2019/11/abolition-constitutionalism/ Twitter: @DorothyERoberts Critical Resistance http://criticalresistance.orgContributions by Rachel Herzing Power Over Policing http://bostonreview.net/law-justice/jocelyn-simonson-power-over-policing Twitter: @j_simonson Bail Nullification https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2879629 Twitter: @j_simonson Copwatching https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2571470 Twitter: @j_simonson Toward Democratic Police Reform: A Vision for Community Engagement Provisions in DOJ Consent Decrees https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/wflr51&div=36&id=&page=