Title:
Building a Shared Understanding of the Legal System’s Role in Creating Racial Health Inequities, Its Impacts on Public Health Practice, and Implications for Future Practice
Description:
The public health field is at a critical inflection point. It faces an internal reckoning with its history as it pauses to reflect on how it can be more responsive to increased demands for equity-centered approaches that have the potential to transform our public health system. This workshop aims to build a shared, foundational understanding of the legal history of structural racism and its role in creating health inequities, and will explore its impacts on past, present, and future public health practice. The workshop format will be a mix of content sharing from the presenters and facilitated breakout discussions focused on engaging with tools, resources, and skill-building activities to move from conversation to action. The workshop is designed to increase the collective capacity of the public health workforce to apply and use the tools of law and policy in their day-to-day work to center racial justice and advance health equity.
Type:
Workshop/Training - 90 Minutes
