Sharing best practices, resources and news curated through a health equity lens for learning and action.

Research and Data

Stolen Breaths,” The New England Journal of Medicine, 2020

Racial Profiling Is a Public Health and Health Disparities Issue,” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 2020

Police Brutality and Mistrust in Medical Institutions,” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 2020

Public Health Addresses Police Violence: A Beginning,” American Journal of Public Health, 2020

Negative Police Encounters and Police Avoidance as Pathways to Depressive Symptoms Among US Black Men, 2015–2016,” American Journal of Public Health, 2020

COVID-19 Outbreaks at Correctional Facilities Demand a Health Equity Approach to Criminal Justice Reform," Journal of Urban Health, 2020

The Traumatic Impact of Racism and Discrimination on Young People and How to Talk About It,” chapter excerpted from Reaching Teens: Strength-Based, Trauma-Sensitive, Resilience-Building Communication Strategies Rooted in Positive Youth Development, 2nd Edition, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2020

Criminal Justice System Involvement and Measures of Health among New York City Residents, 2017,” NYC Health Department, 2019

Addressing Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue,” American Public Health Association, 2018

In Focus: Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Care by Confronting Racism,” The Commonwealth Fund, 2018

Police killings and their spillover effects on the mental health of black Americans: a population-based, quasi-experimental study,” The Lancet, 2018

Police Violence, Use of Force Policies, and Public Health,” American Journal of Law & Medicine, 2017

Civil Unrest in the Context of Chronic Community Violence: Impact on Maternal Depressive Symptoms,” American Journal of Public Health, 2017

Community Violence as a Population Health Issue: Proceedings of a Workshop,” National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2017

A Research Agenda for Racial Equity: Applications of the Ferguson Commission Report to Public Health,” American Journal of Public Health, 2016

The Science of Justice: Race, Arrests, and Police Use of Force,” Center for Policing Equity, 2016

Black Lives Matter: A Commentary on Racism and Public Health,” American Journal of Public Health, 2015

#BlackLivesMatter — A Challenge to the Medical and Public Health Communities,” New England Journal of Medicine, 2015

Why Police Kill Black Males with Impunity: Applying Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP) to Address the Determinants of Policing Behaviors and “Justifiable” Homicides in the USA,” Journal of Urban Health, 2015

Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color,” Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, 1994

Resources

Resources to Challenge Policing and Incarceration as Part of a COVID-19 Response, Human Impact Partners, May 2020

Key Public Health Resources for Anti-Racism Action: A Curated List, National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (Canada), 2018

Webinar Series: The Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of the Nation, American Public Health Association, 2015

Fact Sheet: Links Between Violence and Health Equity, Prevention Institute, 2011

Racism and Health, American Public Health Association

Race, Racism and Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Violence, Safety and Community Peace, Racial Equity Tools

Current Projects, Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health

Anti-Racist Resources from Greater Good, The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley

Anti-Racism, National Health Care for the Homeless Council

Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism (a town hall for kids and families), Sesame Street

26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets, Beyond the Streets

Books about Race/ism and Medicine, compiled by #MedTwitterBookClub

Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others, Pepperdine University

News & Perspectives

August & September 2020

The Relentlessness of Black Grief,” The Atlantic, September 27, 2020

Medicine for the Greater Good: one hospital’s way of supporting its nearby communities of color,” STAT, September 24, 2020

How we define ‘need’ for place-based policy reveals where poverty and race intersect,” Brookings, September 22, 2020

To Prepare for the Next Pandemic, Health Care Needs to Tackle Racism,” United Hospital Fund, September 21, 2020

How Racism Intersects with Public Health and COVID,” Smithsonian Magazine, September 15, 2020

Toward a Cure: Cities Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis,” Colorlines, September 2, 2020

Black Life in Two Pandemics: Histories of Violence,” National Museum of American History, August 25, 2020

Mental-health leaders: We must end pandemic of racism | Commentary,” Orlando Sentinel, August 18, 2020

June 2020

Academic Medicine and Black Lives Matter: Time for Deep Listening,” JAMA, June 30, 2020

Black Americans experience deadly stress as a pandemic and violent racism collide, experts say,” NBC News, June 29, 2020

Truth and Reparations: A Cultural Shift is Needed to Eradicate Manifestations of Violence Against Blacks,” Milwaukee Independent, June 25, 2020

No more Band-Aid solutions — 4 Black healthcare leaders on why it's time to treat racism like the systemic disease it is,” Becker's Hospital Review, June 25, 2020

What is racial trauma? How Black therapists are helping patients cope,” Today, June 24, 2020

Officials Seek To Shift Resources Away From Policing To Address Black ‘Public Health Crisis’,” California Healthline, June 24, 2020

Policing Has Failed: For Real Public Safety, We Need A Million Community-Driven Experiments,” Essence, June 23, 2020

The Chronic Stress of Being Black in the U.S. Makes People More Vulnerable to COVID-19 and Other Diseases,” Yes! Magazine, June 23, 2020

Systemic Racism Is Social Dynamite,” The Nation, June 19, 2020

‘I can’t breathe’: Health inequity and state-sanctioned violence,” The Hospitalist, June 18, 2020

Police killings have 'exacted a trauma' on Black community, top CDC official says,” Yahoo! News, June 18, 2020

Virus, racism pose more mental health risks for black Americans,” Roll Call, June 17, 2020

How the Cash Bail System Endangers the Health of Black Americans," The Commonwealth Fund, June 17, 2020

Why Police Brutality Is a Public Health Issue,” Self, June 17, 2020

Covid-19 and police abuses have exposed an ugly truth about America: racism kills,” The Guardian, June 12, 2020

COVID-19 Pandemic, Unemployment, and Civil Unrest: Underlying Deep Racial and Socioeconomic Divides,” JAMA, June 12, 2020

Mayor Walsh declares racism a public health crisis in Boston, will seek to transfer 20% of police overtime budget to social services,” The Boston Globe, June 11, 2020

Will George Floyd’s Death Actually Change How Cities and States Are Run?,” Route Fifty, June 11, 2020

Question: How Does Racism Affect the Immune System?,” The National Interest, June 10, 2020

We are protesting during a pandemic: local authorities should act like it,” The Hill, June 10, 2020

Beyond Lip Service: Taking A Genuine Approach To Tackling COVID-19 (And All) Black-White Health Disparities In The United States,” Health Affairs Blog, June 9, 2020

A Crisis Within a Crisis: How COVID Fueled the Protests,” Governing, June 8, 2020

‘We’re losing our kids’: Black youth suicide rate rising far faster than for whites; coronavirus, police violence deepen trauma,” USA Today, June 7, 2020

‘Pandemic Within a Pandemic’: Coronavirus and Police Brutality Roil Black Communities,” The New York Times, June 7, 2020

The nexus between coronavirus and protests: The virus ‘was the kindling, and the police brutality lit the fire.’,” The Washington Post, June 7, 2020

American Medical Association: Doctors To Work To End Police Brutality, Racism In Healthcare,” Forbes, June 7, 2020

How to address racism like the public health crisis it is,” Quartz, June 6, 2020

On the Minds of Black Lives Matter Protesters: A Racist Health System,” Vox, June 5, 2020

Racism is a deadly virus, too: A public health defense of these mass protests,” New York Daily News, June 5, 2020

Why George Floyd's death, COVID-19 inequality sparked protests: 'We're witnessing history',” Democrat & Chronicle, June 5, 2020

Racism is killing black people. It’s sickening them, too.,” The Washington Post, June 4, 2020

Which death do they choose?’: Many Black men fear wearing a mask more than the coronavirus,” STAT, June 3, 2020

Doctors can’t treat COVID-19 effectively without recognizing the social justice aspects of health,” The Conversation, June 2, 2020

Cause of death: COVID-19, police violence or racism?,” Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2020

2 public health crises have collided in the protests over George Floyd’s death,” Vox, June 1, 2020

Racial Trauma Is a Public Health Emergency,” Psychology Today, June 1, 2020

Racism is a public health issue and 'police brutality must stop,' medical groups say,” CNN, June 1, 2020

Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David on the Launch of Pride Month and Anti-Racism,” Human Rights Campaign, June 1, 2020

May 2020

Black people are at the center of two public health crises in the US: Covid-19 and police brutality,” Quartz, May 31, 2020

Police brutality must stop,” American Medical Association, May 29, 2020

Race, Justice, and COVID-19,” Boston University School of Public Health, May 29, 2020

Marijuana enforcement is still driving racist policing,” New York Daily News, May 29, 2020