Reading Group

The International Health IDARE Reading Group meets once a month, mid-month, to engage in meaningful discussions around the role of inclusion, diversity, anti-racism, equity, and decolonization in our daily lives (in Baltimore and globally) and in our scholarship. Each meeting’s readings and other media focuses on a specific topic as decided by the group through a poll in the previous meeting.

The group is open to all members of the International Health Department and welcomes suggestions for readings and/or pieces for discussion. If you would like to make a suggestion or to join the group, please email Rosemary Morgan (Rosemary.Morgan@jhu.edu).

Current and past readings are below:

March 

• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

April

• What’s Behind the COVID-19 Racial Disparity? By Graeme Wood
• Understanding COVID-19 risks and vulnerabilities among black communities in America: the lethal force of syndemics by Tonia Poteat, Gregorio A. Millett, LaRon E. Nelson, and Chris Beyrer

May

• A Conversation with Asian-Americans on Race by Geeta Gandhir and Michèle Stephenson
• Minor feelings: an Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

June

NB: My non-binary life, a podcast by Join Caitlin Benedict & Amrou Al-Kadhi