Aderonke Bamgbose Pederson, MD

Dr. Aderonke Pederson on contact-based storytelling to reduce mental illness stigma, address medical mistrust, and improve care engagement in Black adults.

Research on antistigma interventions needs to look at sustained changes in attitudes and knowledge over time.

Here, the authors discuss discrimination in health care and offer suggestions on how to incorporate social determinants of health into routine patient encounters to address unmet patient needs.