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ISBRA - ISBRA's mission is to promote excellence internationally in all aspects of biomedical research on alcoholism and alcohol related biomedical phenomena.

CPDD - The vision of The College on Problems of Drug Dependence is a world where substance use disorder is no longer a cause of stigma and human suffering.

NIAAA - The mission of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is to generate and disseminate fundamental knowledge about the adverse effects of alcohol on health and well-being, and apply that knowledge to improve diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of alcohol-related problems, including alcohol use disorder, across the lifespan.

NIDA - Our mission is to advance science on drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health.

Living Our Values: Resources 

Any listing below does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSA as a whole.

  • Academics for Black Survival and Wellness. (2020). Call to Action. https://www.academics4blacklives.com/call-to-action
  • Asplund, M., & Welle, C. G. (2018). Advancing science: How bias holds us back. Neuron, 99(4), 635-639. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627318306433
  • Stewart, A. J., & Valian, V. (2018). An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence. MIT Press.
  • Kuo, M. (2017, January 30). Consciously combating unconscious bias. Science Careers. Retrieved from: https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2017/01/consciously-combating-unconscious-bias. doi:10.1126/science.caredit.a1700010.
  • Laymon, K. (2018). Heavy: An American Memoir. Scribner.
  • Kendi, I. X. (2019). How to be an antiracist. New York: One World.
  • Livingston, R. (2020, September). How to promote racial equity in the workplace. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from: https://hbr.org/2020/09/how-to-promote-racial-equity-in-the-workplace
  • Harrison-Bernard, L. M., Augustus-Wallace, A. C., Souza-Smith, F. M., Tsien, F., Casey, G. P., & Gunaldo, T. P. (2020). Knowledge gains in a professional development workshop on diversity, equity, inclusion, and implicit bias in academia. Advances in Physiology Education, 44(3), 286-294. doi: 10.1152/advan.00164.2019
  • Taffe, M. A. & Gilpin, N. W. (2021). The Funding is the Science: Racial Inequity of NIH Funding for Substance Use Disorder Topics Should Be Abolished. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 229, 109163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.109163
  • Page McBee, T. (2014) Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man. City Lights.
  • Malisch, J.L., Harris, B. N., Sherrer, S. M., Lewis, K. A., Shepherd, S. L., McCarthy, P. C., Spott, J. L., Karam, E. P., Moustaid-Moussa, N., McCrory Calarco, J., Ramalingam, L., Talley, A. E., Cañas-Carrell, J. E., Ardon-Dryer, K., Weiser, D. A., Bernal, X. E., Deitloff, J. (2020). Opinion: In the wake of COVID-19, academia needs new solutions to ensure gender equity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2010636117. Companion website: https://academicequity.smcm.edu/
  • Sue, D. W. (2016). Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race. Wiley.
  • Gosztyla, M., Kwong, L, Murray, N., & Williams, C. (n.d.) Responses to 10 Common Criticisms of Anti-Racism Action in STEM. Retrieved from https://antiracisminstem.wordpress.com/
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2018). Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24994.
  • Crenshaw, K. (2020). Under the Blacklight [Series]. https://aapf.org/aapfcovid
  • Cornejo Villavicencio, K. (2020). The Undocumented Americans. One World.
  • Gilpin, N. W. & Taffe, M. A. (2021). Toward an Anti-Racist Approach to Biomedical and Neuroscience Research. The Journal of Neuroscience, 41, 8669-8672; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1319-21.2021
  • Seattle Channel. (July 3, 2018).  Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU
  • Tatum, B. D. (2017). Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?: And other conversations about race. Basic Books.
  • DiAngelo, R. (2018). White fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism. Beacon Press.

Contact Living Our Values (LOV) Chair, Sarah Pedersen pedersensl@upmc.edu, if you would like to recommend a resource for this section of our resources page.