Hey everyone, this is Uttiba Esseon.

This is Derek Paul.

And welcome to the very first episode of the Clinical Problem Solvers Anti-Racism and Medicine series, Racism, Police Violence, and Health.

Y'all, we are so grateful for the opportunity to be here and to the clinical problem solvers who gave us this platform to lift up this issue of racism as a root cause of health inequities,

an issue that has increasingly been shown to deserve

attention as a part of our clinical education. As Robbie and Reza mentioned, CP Solvers saw this topic,

not just as a one-off episode for a moment, but as a key part of the podcast's mission.

You know, the first thing we did when we started working on this was to put

our team together. And we have an incredible team. We're going to introduce them in just a few

minutes. But the first thing we did as a team was to define our mission and the vision for the series.

And we want to share that with you. So the mission of the anti-racism in medicine series

is to equip you our listeners across every level of training with the consciousness and the tools

to practice anti-racism in the health profession's careers. And our vision, which for us,

you know, that's what's the highest hope and dream for this series.

And that's that our episodes can be a kind of living resource for folks who are looking to

practice anti-racism. You know, we're excited to do this. We're excited to be doing a lot of learning

and thinking ourselves. And we're so glad that you're coming on this journey with us.

So like all great things in medicine, this series really wouldn't be possible

without our incredible team who work behind and in front of the scenes.

These include Naomi Fields, Rohan Kazanachi, Ashara Nolan,

all of whom the audience are going to get to know much more over the upcoming year.

We also have an incredible lead research assistant, Chioma Anuo.

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