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Paula Brakeman
Professor Emeritus of Family and Community Medicine and Founding Director of the Center for Health Equity at UCSF, a leading scholar of health equity and social determinants of health.
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Jun 9, 2026
Introducing the Building Better Ways of Knowing summer mini-series
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15:52Paula BrakemanGUEST
First, this meeting has been absolutely fascinating and like, commend the organizers for thinking of the need to hold the meeting and for organizing it.
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16:07Paula BrakemanGUEST
The importance of being sophisticated about the issue of community, because community can be used and misused in multiple ways.
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16:22Paula BrakemanGUEST
Community can be used by people to, and it is used by people to refer to almost any collection of human beings.
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16:32Paula BrakemanGUEST
And so we need to be mindful of that and we need to raise the question, who is it who defines a community? And who is it who defines, who is it in the community that we go to as representative of the community? People often assume that it's the most grassroots people in the community, but sometimes it really should be leaders within the community.
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17:02Paula BrakemanGUEST
We need to be very mindful about how the conclusions from this meeting could potentially be used for malevolent purposes.
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17:16Paula BrakemanGUEST
So for example, as we question the limitations of traditional science, And we elevate the importance of the knowledge that comes from communities that isn't packaged in the ways that scientific knowledge has been packaged and doesn't come from methodologies like those that we've all been trained in.
