Health Disparities Seminar Examines Cultural Humility

Dr. Jann Murray-Garcia presented last week in the 2018-2019 Seminar Series on Health Disparities on the topic of “Cultural Humility: Interrupting Our Scripts of Racial Inequality.”

Dr. Murray-García is a founding faculty member and assistant clinical professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis, where she teaches nurses in the year-long master’s-degree leadership Community Connections course — a practicum in systems-level leadership in community organizations. 

Her publications on race, health care and child development have appeared in journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Pediatrics, Medical Care, Academic Medicine, and Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 

With Melanie Tervalon, Murray-García coined and developed the concept of Cultural Humility in her most-oft cited publication, “Cultural Humility versus Cultural Competency: A Critical Distinction in Defining Physician Training Outcomes in Multicultural Education” (Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1998). Along with the elimination of health disparities, Murray-García’s interests include the impact of racial stratification and racial-identity development on the health and health-related decisions of youth and adults.