Libertas’ Executive Director, Dr. Dinali Fernando, co-writes the article alongside Dr. Richard Mollica, Director of the Harvard Program of Refugee Trauma.
In the article, they highlight the racial trauma that healthcare workers experience in their workplaces, and the importance of support to address and process such trauma.
They write: “This abuse should give us pause to consider our health-care colleagues who experience such racial discrimination on a continuum, even in non-pandemic times. The Black Lives Matter protests happening throughout the world have brought the issue of racial injustice in the USA into the limelight. Health-care workers are no exception to these racial biases.”