Season 1 · Episode 102
102 - What Does It Mean to Call Racism a Public Health Issue?
Public Health On Call · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
June 25, 202014m 46s
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Show Notes
Public health's focus on the root causes of disease and injury mean the intersecting crises of COVID-19 and racism provide a critical opportunity for the field. Dr. Georges Benjamin, the executive director of the American Public Health Association, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the sector's reckoning with reality around naming, defining, and addressing racism as a critical public health problem.