NIH Virtual Meeting on the Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Structural Racism

Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET

12:00 PM – 12:15 PM

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Speakers:

Nora Volkow, M.D., Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse

George Koob, Ph.D., Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

12:15 PM – 12:30 PM

INTRODUCTION TO MEETING

Topic: Why are we here? What will the 3 days of the meeting consist of?

• Historical perspective: How did we get here?
• Identifying gaps: What are the current problems?
• Steps forward: How can we solve the problems?

Speaker: NIH Planning Team Member

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Topic: Why is it important to consider ‘structure’ from a neuroscience perspective?

Speaker: Ruth Shim, M.D., University of California, Davis, Davis, CA

• What are the current institutions, norms, and practices that reinforce racial biases in clinical practice and community-level health outcomes?
• How does considering structural racism improve the way we do neuroscience research?

1:30 PM – 1:45 PM

BREAK

1:45 PM – 3:00 PM

PANEL PRESENTATIONS

Topic: What are the ideological origins of structural racism?

1:45 PM – 1:50 PM

Brief Introduction to Panel Topics and Speakers

1:50 PM – 2:10 PM

History of systemic racial violence within some minoritized communities

2:10 PM – 2:30 PM

The historical roots of present-day healthcare institution

2:30 PM – 2:50 PM

How institutional structures and interpersonal biases have perpetuated racism within neuroscience research

2:50 PM – 3:10 PM

Generation of cultural protective factors through systemic oppression

3:10 PM – 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

PANEL DISCUSSION

Topic: How can we be anti-racist as neuroscientists?

• The importance of building trust with historically oppressed communities to diversify samples, in practice
• How can community and structural levels be incorporated into the language of cognitive neuroscience (i.e., how to bring in an ecological perspective or gain cultural competency)?
• Unpacking ‘risk’ and ‘resilience’: how do biases inform use of these words in neuroscience
• Understanding cultural protective factors and their role in informing neuroscience research

Moderator: Dr. Ruth Shim

Facilitator: NIH Team Member

Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET

12:00 PM – 12:05 PM

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Speaker: Shelli Avenevoli, Ph.D., Deputy Director, National Institute of Mental Health

12:05 PM – 12:15 PM

RECAP OF DAY 1 AND WELCOME TO DAY 2

Speaker: NIH Planning Team Member

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Topic: Challenges to operationalizing and measuring structural racism as a construct in neuroscience research. Potential questions to address:

• How do you measure the proximal and distal effects of structural racism?
• What is the outcome of structural racism at the individual level (connecting institutional to interpersonal racism)?
  • How is the ‘experience of racism’ measured, behaviorally and biologically?

Speaker: Oliver Rollins, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1:15 PM – 1:30 PM

BREAK

1:30 PM – 5:00 PM

CONSTRUCT SERIES

Topic #1: Constructs that measure the structural and institutional impacts of systemic racism

1:30 PM – 1:35 PM

Introduction to topic #1 and speakers

Speaker: NIH Planning Team Member

1:35 PM – 1:50 PM

Geographic (state and community) contexts

1:50 PM – 2:05 PM

Income Inequality

2:05 PM – 2:20 PM

Education Inequality

2:20 PM – 3:00 PM

Discussion with topic 1 panelists

Moderator: Dr. Oliver Rollins

Facilitator: NIH Planning Team Member

3:00 PM – 3:20 PM

Break

Topic #2: Constructs that measure the experience of systemic racism

3:20 PM – 3:25 PM

Introduction to topic #2 and speakers

Speaker: NIH Planning Team Member

3:25 PM – 3:40 PM

Discrimination and trauma

3:40 PM – 3:55 PM

Racial and gender identity

3:55 PM – 4:10 PM

Stereotype threat and promise, and microaggressions

4:10 PM – 4:50 PM

Discussion with topic #2 panelists

Moderator: Dr. Oliver Rollins

Facilitator: NIH Planning Team Member

Thursday, May 19, 2022, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET

12:00 PM – 12:05 PM

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Speaker: Monica Webb Hooper, Ph.D., Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

12:05 PM – 12:15 PM

RE-CAP OF DAY 2 AND WELCOME TO DAY 3

Speaker: NIH Planning Team Member

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Topic: Intergenerational Transmission of Psychiatric Risk and Lessons Learned for Community Engagement

Speaker: Cristiane Duarte, Ph.D., Columbia University

1:15 PM – 1:30 PM

BREAK

1:30 PM – 1:45 PM

INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY COLLABORATION PANEL

Topic: Health Equity Tourism

1:45 PM – 2:15 PM

COMMUNITY COLLABORATION PANEL

Topic: Effective strategies for community collaboration

1:45 PM – 2:00 PM

Researcher perspective: How community collaboration informed the rigor of the research design and significance of the research questions

2:00 PM – 2:15 PM

Community collaborator perspective: How research participation improved trust and relationships within academic and clinical systems

2:15 PM – 3:00 PM

PANEL DISCUSSION

Topic: How to be build meaningful partnerships and collaborations

Participants: Dr. Lette and community-based participatory research panel

Moderator: Dr. Cristiane Duarte

Facilitator: NIH Planning Team Member

3:00 PM – 3:20 PM

BREAK

3:20 PM – 4:00 PM

FLASH TALKS

Topic: Empirical research and methods that examine the effects of structural racism on brain mechanisms.

1. The neuroscience of dehumanization
2. The juvenile justice system and brain development
3. Brain connectivity and socioeconomic disadvantage
4. Resilience as a social construct
5. Intervening on implicit and explicit attitudes towards race

4:00 PM – 4:35 PM

DATA USE PRESENTATIONS

Topic: Responsible use of secondary datasets

4:00 PM – 4:05 PM

Introduction to speakers

4:05 PM – 4:25 PM

Bioethics, justice, and data sharing

4:25 PM – 4:35 PM

Discussion

4:35 PM – 5:00 PM

FINAL WRAP-UP

4:35 PM – 4:55 PM

Recap of day 3 and integration of the 3-day meeting

Speaker: NIH Planning Team Member

4:55 PM – 5:00 PM

Thank you