Policy Brief
Anti-Racism Consortium | November 2023
Anti-Racist Health Policy: Addressing the Mechanism and Manifestations of Racial Health Inequities©
Amani Allen, Ph.D.; David Chae, ScD, MA; Thu T. Nguyen, ScD, MSPH
Executive Summary
Despite overall improvement in population health, the racial gap in health outcomes has persisted. Racism is a leading explanation for continuing racial health inequities. In this brief, we describe a series of studies examining: 1) the psychobiological mechanisms through which racism gets “under the skin”; and 2) the measurement of area-level racial sentiment—a manifestation of cultural racism—and its associations with racial health inequities. We, then, discuss the implications of this and the larger evidence base in support of broad scale antiracist health policy. Finally, we provide several recommendations to address racial health inequities.
Hear the Author in Conversation
In this episode of the Critical Futures podcast, we talk to Amani Allen, Wilhelmenia Wilson, and Suzette Chaumette about their work with organizations such as Healthy Black Families to address social determinants of health through anti-racist health policy.
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