Focus on Impact | CSM Report to Community
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McNiel–Inyani Keri
Black Lives Matter CSM’s Black Medical Students’ Association (BMSA) was established in 2018 to create a safe, welcoming community for Black medical students. Since then, it has evolved into a group that raises awareness of the bias and systemic racism in our institutions, including medical education.
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s the tragic deaths of George Floyd, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery and the associated Black Lives Matter protests were making headlines, the BMSA took action to provide an evidence-based framework for the medical school to use to initiate meaningful change to combat the racial inequality that is currently woven into our processes and systems. In June 2020, BMSA members, Aya Ebdalla (BA, BSc ’19), McNiel–Inyani Keri, Mursal Mohamud and Chidera Nwaroh (MSc ’19) released “Calls to Action to Address Institutionalized Racism in Medical
