Health Affairs September 25, 2024
Increased recognition about the history, influence, and role of racism as a driver of health inequity has led to calls for improved diversity of representation in investigative teams and research populations. It has heightened awareness that investigators, researchers, editorial boards, and even readers have biases that may impact the publication and consumption of scientific discoveries.
Efforts to acknowledge the potential biases of researchers have been operationalized in the social sciences through the use of positionality statements. These are statements that acknowledge a researcher’s personal identity and potential biases. Francis A Maher and Mary Kay Tetreault explain that “gender, race, class and other aspects of our identities are markers of relational positions rather than essential qualities. Knowledge is valid when it...
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