Medical News Today stands with the black STEM community as academics and institutions around the world down tools today in support of the #ShutDownSTEM #ShutDownAcademia #Strike4BlackLives initiative.
We need to acknowledge that science has a problem with racism.
Black people and people of color are woefully underrepresented in academic and professional institutions focusing on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. This includes healthcare.
These problems must be exposed and confronted in order to eradicate the structural racism they perpetuate.
Today, the on