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Episode 18: Racism Has Always Been a Public Health Crisis

December 05, 2020 • Katherine Bankole-Medina • Season 1 • Episode 18

This episode explores the basic concept of public health; the recent phenomenon of cities, counties, and national organizations declaring racism a public health crisis; important questions and concerns about the declaration that racism is an urgent threat to public health in the United States. Key words: Race, Racism, White Supremacy, Public Health, Public Health Crisis Declarations, AMA (American Medical Association), Leslie Gregory, Systemic Racism, The Tuskegee Experiment, Flint Water Crisis, Medicine, Heath, Na’im Akbar, Kobi Kambon, Dorothy Roberts, Nancy Krieger, Harriet Washington. American Public Health Association, Willarda Edwards, M.D, Vice President Joe Biden, James Jones, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.

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