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Jann Murray-García, MD, MPH
Clinical Professor Emerita, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing
Date: October 2nd, 2026
Time: 12-1.30pm
Venue: Hart Hall, Room 3201
Title:
How Health Professionals Are Historically Scripted Not To Listen To Black Women"
Abstract:
Nearly three decades ago, Jann Murray-García, MD, MPH and Melanie Tervalon, MD, MPH, two African American pediatricians, made the distinction between Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility in defining training outcomes for health and human service professionals. Their original 1998 paper has been cited over 5,900 times. The Cultural Humility framework asks us to become familiar with the sociopolitical history of the groups we serve, so we do not miss or disdain the valuable expertise that members of minoritized groups can offer u as clinicians. We use the case study of Black women in the United States to illustrate how what we do not know about the history of U.S. race relations can render today’s "performances" of harmful "scripts" of inequality invisible to us as health and human service providers. This invisibility places these scripts outside of our ability to identify, interrupt, and transform them into scripts of equity, respect, and professional effectiveness. Dr. Murray-García's presentation, "How We Are Historically Scripted Not To Listen To Black Women," connects the dots from Patricia Hill Collins' "controlling images" directly to the often-cruel and inhumane inequity that shows up in our clinics and hospitals today. The chapter is from their upcoming textbook, scheduled for release in February 2028, Cultural Humility: History, Concepts, Cases, and Practice.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Murray-García is a pediatrician and Health Sciences Clinical Professor Emerita at the UC Davis Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. She co-founded with Dr. Melanie Tervalon and has written a textbook on the internationally recognized concept of Cultural Humility. Their textbook is due out in February 2028. She has developed several highly-rated immersive experiences at UC Davis Health, including the 3-day Anti-Racism and Cultural Humility (ARC) Training Program for staff, clinical leaders, faculty, and administrators; the 4 week Summer Institute on Race and Health for medical students; and the overnight Interprofessional Central Valley Road Trip, a 2-day intergenerational exploration of the diverse cultural histories and current population health challenges of this critically important region of the country. Dr. Murray-García received her BA in Human Biology with Honors and with Distinction from Stanford University, her MD from UCSF, and completed pediatric residency training at Oakland Children’s Hospital, followed by an MPH from UC Berkeley. She is widely published in the health sciences literature. Her greatest achievements are her marriage in 1992 to her boyfriend of 33 years, Dr. Jorge García, her three children, and three grandchildren.