Reparations is defined as making amends for a past wrongdoing by apology, money, or otherwise. The challenge to enact the concept is to take a long view to understand and to take appropriate actions.
Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been the dominant influence on racial scholarship since the 1980s; however, its jurisprudential origins have, until now, limited its application to public health research. To improve the ease and fidelity with which health equity research applies CRT, this paper introduces the Public Health Critical Race praxis (PHCR).
The current program will be replaced with one that is noncompetitive and open to all students. Current scholars will not lose their funding, but no future scholarships will be awarded.
Professor Camara Jones makes the case that “racial” health disparities cannot be eliminated until racism is named and addressed.
Health equity, racism, and social justice emerged as talking points when COVID-19 shuttered the world in 2020. That dialogue was happening before COVID-19, no doubt about it. But what the pandemic did was reinvigorate the discussion, updating the conversation to account for a more inclusive society.
The crisis of American gun violence has reached a fever pitch. And though the entire country is in mourning, people of color in the U.S. particularly live with the fear of ordinary spaces (schools, churches, supermarkets) normally deemed safe, becoming emblematic sites of unchecked violence.
In May of this year, the U.S. documented its first 2022 outbreak case of monkeypox, which is a zoonotic condition endemic in several West and Central African countries.
