Interviews, lectures, and presentations from leading scholars addressing the impact of racism on health disparities, and future directions for health equity.

 
 

APHA TV sits down with APHA President-Elect Camara Jones at APHA 2015 to hear about plans for her upcoming year as President and about initiatives for battling racism in Public Health.

PART I: From the 138th APHA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Dr. William Carter Jenkins has devoted himself for nearly four decades to the twin causes of eliminating racial/ethnic health disparities and expanding opportunities for racial/ethnic minorities to enter and succeed in careers in biostatistics and epidemiology.

Sponsored by the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis and The New School for Social Research:  William "Sandy" Darity presents "Does Racism Make You Sick?: Health, Wealth and Race in America."

Dr. Camara Jones shares four allegories on "race" and racism. She hopes that these "telling stories" empower you to do something different, and that you will remember them and pass them on.

PART II: From the 138th APHA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Dr. William Carter Jenkins has devoted himself for nearly four decades to the twin causes of eliminating racial/ethnic health disparities and expanding opportunities for racial/ethnic minorities to enter and succeed in careers in biostatistics and epidemiology.

In this presentation from UC Santa Barbara, Robert D. Bullard, one of the nation's leading authority on race and the environment, takes a look at the connection between human rights and the politics of pollution. 

Short film for the African American Policy Forum, showing metaphors for obstacles to equality which affirmative action tries to alleviate.

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The mission of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health is to promote health equity through rigorous research, innovative teaching, and community engagement.

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