UMN Health's video: Driven to Dismantle Structural Racism

Rachel R. Hardeman received her Ph.D. in Health Services Research Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Management. Dr. Hardeman is a health inequities researcher whose work focuses on the provider contribution to equity and quality of health care delivery and the ways in which race (e.g. implicit bias, explicit bias, stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination institutional racism and the white racial frame) impact health care delivery and the clinician-patient encounter. She has a particular interest and focus on prenatal care delivery and persistent disparate birth outcomes for African American women. Dr. Hardeman is also a leading expert in medical education research focusing on the experiences of under-represented minority physician trainees and how physicians are trained to provide equitable and bias-free care. Her training at the intersection of health services research and sociology allows her to use a Critical Race Theory framework as a lens by which to examine health inequities. She is passionate about moving the conversation around racism in public health and health services research forward. To that end, the overarching goal of her work is to contribute to a new body of knowledge that enriches how we understand the ways that structural racism plays out in healthcare encounters.