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Indigenous Health MedTalk

From the Indigenous Health MedTalk, Professor Gregory Phillips talks about unconscious bias and health equality.

Untangle

Anu Gupta is a scientist, educator, lawyer, and the Founder of BE MORE with Anu, an ed-tech company advancing equity and belonging by addressing the root causes of racial and gender disparities. He shares insights and practical tools for how we can transform deeply ingrained stereotypes and biases in ourselves and in organizations, healthcare, education and more.

Additional podcasts

  • How The Concept Of Implicit Bias Came Into Being (5:28 minutes). Harvard University program on the history of the phrase 'implicit bias' and it's importance in North America.
  • Cognitive bias in clinical practice (34 mins) Episode from the GP show with Associate Professor Peta-Ann Teague from James Cook University.
  • Jennifer Whelan: Unconscious Bias (55 mins). From a series of Sydney Opera House presentations, this evidence based examination of unconscious bias explains common triggers and how we make decisions without being consciously aware of it. 
  • The Cognitive Bias Podcast (various episodes). A U.S. podcast series with weekly episodes by David Dylan Thomas. Explores all aspects of cognitive bias in daily life and across industries.

Understanding and preventing cognitive errors in health care

For an introduction to cognitive bias, watch 'Understanding and preventing cognitive errors in health care' which features Marjorie Steigler from Stanford Medicine.

The following video features an interview with patient communication researcher Stacey Passalacqua (PhD) at the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians. She outlines how physicians and other health care providers may harbor implicit, or unconscious, biases that contribute to health care disparities. 

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Additional videos

There are many videos about common cognitive biases in daily life, such as this 10 minute plain english youtube video and Kristen Pressners' TEDx talk "Are you biased?" which also includes a simple method for testing yourself. For something a little more substantial watch Uncovering Hidden Biases (66 mins), a Google talk with Dr. Mahzarin Banaji from Harvard University on the human "blindspot" and how it can be a catalyst for change.

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