“These are extraordinary times for science, medicine and public health – one in which the possibilities for accelerating progress in human health seem limitless,” Bibbins-Domingo said in the statement. The daunting challenge of achieving optimal health for all seems intractable.” “In this context, a trusted voice in science, medicine and public health has never been more important. JAMA and the JAMA Network represent an unparalleled Platforms that allow the best science to reach the widest audience and drive discussion, debate and new ideas that will continue to shape health nationally and globally.”

Dr. Bibbins-Domingo was a member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force from 2010-2017, and served as vice chair and chair of the task force from 2014-2017. She led the task force’s systematic review of evidence, authorship of clinical guidelines, and the editorial process for multi-channel distribution of evidence and guidelines to physicians and patients, the statement said.

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Bauchner resigned in June 2021 following a February 2021 JAMA podcast that was heavily criticized for suggesting that there is no real systemic racism in medicine. As interim editor-in-chief, Fontanarossa helps write editorial Apologised for the podcast and said “the broad evidence base strongly supports the existence of structural racism in medicine and its adverse health effects.”

The controversy comes as the American Medical Association Reassessing and acknowledging examples of past racist behavior.

Naming and taking responsibility for issues like historical structural racism is critical to the medical field, Bibbins-Domingo said.

“The entire scientific and medical enterprise has been plagued by an inability to recognize these important forces,” she said in a virtual press conference today, suggesting that more diverse leadership can change that dynamic.

“Part of the blindness to these forces has to do with the people who were present when the decision was made.”

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