The Racing Toward Equity Series, hosted by the Diversity and Health Equity Peer Learning Collaborative at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine was a series of three seminars intended to address the various forms of racism, understanding of it’s system level structures, and ways one can be involved in overcoming the challenges related to this work.
The American Public Health Association’s webinar “Quantifying Racism to Understand and Address Health Disparities” was used in two of three seminars.” The webinar includes an introduction to racism and health disparities, a discussion of implementation and measurement challenges in public health research, a discussion on the measurement of the physiologic impacts of racism on health, and the lessons learned from the the work and how to overcome challenges.
First Seminar “Naming Racism”
This seminar included viewing the first part of the webinar- the National Campaign Against Racism. Lead by Camara Jones, MD, MPH, PhD APHA President, in which she discusses naming, measuring, and addressing racism as a threat to the health and well-being of the nation.
Second Seminar “Got Class(ism)?”
This seminar was lead by one of our MPH students Kendra Davis in which she went over the low-down on class related to health disparities, how class works, and what you can do about it.
Check out this Video on our Second Seminar “Got Class(ism)?”
*Note: There are long pauses of low or no audio because audience audio was not picked up with the recording’s microphone.*
Third Seminar “Measuring of Racism”
This seminar included viewing the part of the webinar- Implementation and Measurement Challenges. Lead by Nancy Krieger, PhD Professor of Social Epidemiology Harvard Chan School of Public Health in which she discusses racism’s impacts on health and the challeneges in evaluating it in public health research.
Stay tune to what this collaborative will host in the near future!
