Equity in action: How communities can drive implementation of declarations of racism as a public health crisis
Date: August 24, 2023
The Collaborative for Anti-Racism & Equity (CARE) hosted a webinar on the work being done to support and address the role of community declarations of racism as a public health crisis.
BMSG’s Hina Mahmood and Pamela Mejia presented their findings from a media analysis that showed how the declarations of racism as a public health crisis were presented in the news, whose perspectives dominated the coverage, and if the news portrayed community playing an active role in the policy process.
Presenters also discussed key topics such as:
- Barriers to achieving racial equity
- How governmental programs to achieve racial equity comply with the 14th Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Community involvement in declarations of racism as a public health crisis and identifying opportunities for community to be authentically centered in political processes
- Limitations and opportunities for narrative change in news coverage of policy efforts to declare racism a public health crisis
- The history of declarations and their role in public health
- American Public Health Association’s racism declarations tracking map
Other presenters included:
- Catherine Labiran, The Praxis Project
- Lawrence Haynes, American Public Health Association
- Dawn Hunter, Network for Public Health Law
- Camara Jones, O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination, and Global Health
- Crystal Lewis, The Institute for Healing, Justice & Equity
- Ruqaiijah Yearby, The Institute for Healing, Justice & Equity
View the full webinar recording and related resources here.