323 - Remembering and Honoring George Floyd Part I: Examining the Psychological Impacts of Racialized Police Violence
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
George Floyd's murder had an impact on our collective consciousness, and racism by itself is a "biopsychosocial stressor." Guest host Dr. Rachel Thornton of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity talks with Dr. Wizdom Powell of the UConn Health Disparities Institute about the potential for mental health fallout from increased racialized violence, the impacts of trauma, the "adultification" of Black youths, and how the concepts of radical love and radical healing can help mend America's deep wounds associated with the legacy of racism.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:19.6 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence |
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| 0:47.2 | This week, Public Health On Call commemorates one year after the murder of George Floyd, |
| 0:52.7 | with five podcast episodes produced in collaboration |
| 0:55.7 | with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. Each podcast explores a dimension of the work |
| 1:01.9 | ahead to eliminate racism in all of its forms. Today's guest host is Dr. Rachel Thornton, a faculty |
| 1:09.5 | member of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| 1:12.2 | and the Associate Director for Policy at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. Dr. Thornton. |
| 1:17.6 | Thank you so much, Josh. It's wonderful to be here. Today, we're going to examine the psychological impacts of racialized police violence to begin to understand what it will |
| 1:30.6 | take to heal America's deep wounds associated with a legacy of racism. Since the murder of George |
| 1:38.0 | Floyd one year ago, the Washington Post tracker estimates that nearly 1,000 people have been shot and killed by police |
| 1:46.2 | officers on duty. Blacks are killed at 2.4 times the rate of whites and Hispanics at 1.8 |
| 1:53.6 | times the rate of whites, according to the tracker's data. Our guest today is Dr. Wisdom Powell, director of the Yukon Health Disparities Institute |
| 2:05.3 | and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yukon Health. She joins us to discuss police violence |
| 2:13.4 | and racial trauma and their impacts on mental health, including her recommendations for a path forward |
| 2:20.9 | to heal America. Let's listen. Dr. Wisdom, pal, thank you so much for being here. During this |
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