The REPAIR Project is designed to address anti-Black racism and augment Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) voices and presence in science and medicine. This project addresses racism in medicine as an educational problem by providing a theoretical framework for coordinating and implementing social justice and anti-racism curriculum throughout the medical center. The REPAIR framework is being implemented at the University of Kansas Medical Center and the University of California San Francisco.

The REPAIR framework recognizes that long-standing racial inequities in health, health care institutions and academic scholarship result from systemic race-based structural violence and racism in society as a whole. The framework seeks to promote curriculum and policy changes to stimulate efforts to rectify and ultimately eliminate these problems. In “Faces at the Bottom of the Well,” legal studies scholar and civil rights activist Derek Bell (1993) reminds us that discussions of injustices experienced by Black Americans continue to distill and serve as a guide for ending racial injustice for other groups.

Primary Objective

Each activity, training and learning module developed under the REPAIR framework is designed and structured to meet one or more of four pillars within the theoretical framework. These pillars will also be used to guide the development of new research, inform institutional policies and practices and enhance community engagement