Webinar recording - Equity in Action: How Communities can Drive Implementation of Declarations of Racism as a Public Health Crisis

The Collaborative for Anti-Racism & Equity (CARE) is hosted its first webinar on 8/24/23 . In this 90-minute presentation, hear from our partners and we discuss our work to support and address racism as a public health crisis.

Webinar Objectives:

• Describe barriers to achieving racial equity
• Explain how governmental programs to achieve racial equity comply with the 14th Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Assess community involvement in declarations of racism as a public health crisis and identify opportunities for community to be authentically centered in political processes
• Identify limitations and opportunities for narrative change in news coverage of policy efforts to declare racism a public health crisis
• Learn more about the history of declarations
• Understand their role in public health
• Learn more about APHA’s racism declarations tracking map

Presenters:

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
Catherine Labiran – The Praxis Project
Crystal Lewis – The Institute for Healing, Justice, & Equity
Hina Mahmood – Berkeley Media Studies Group
Ruqaiijah Yearby – The Institute for Healing, Justice, & Equity