By Adrianna Evans and Beth Giambrone, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), February 24, 2022
Public and private institutions, school districts, and business leaders are advancing racial equity and supporting policies to address racism. Public health organizations including CDC, ASTHO, NACCHO, and APHA have taken steps to eliminate the effects of racism. Likewise, many cities and counties have declared racism an urgent public health crisis comparable to other public health emergencies.
In 2020 and early 2021, state policymakers took action to raise awareness of the impacts of racism on health outcomes, to reverse the damage of racist polices, and to implement policy changes to ensure that future policies are enacted with a racial equity lens. In the past two years, many states introduced and adopted resolutions declaring racism a public health crisis. In the early weeks of 2022, there is notably less legislation that has been introduced as compared to the same time last year.
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