PHO Grand Rounds - On Your Marks: Prepare to Address Systemic Racism in Public Health

In June 2017, Ontario passed the Anti-Racism Act, to address systemic racism in the province. This legislation “Enables the government to implement race data collection and an anti-racism impact assessment tool, to help identify, remedy or prevent inequitable racial impacts of policies and programs.” As such, race-based data will eventually inform population health assessments and possibly the collection of data by public health.

The presenters will describe systemic racism as an ecological form of discrimination that affects the health of racialized persons, the implications of this new legislation for public health practice, and provide examples of innovative approaches public health organizations are using to address racial inequities. This presentation is a follow-up to a presentation in 2017, entitled “Is Black Health a public health issue?” which provided evidence of systemic anti-Black racism in Canada, and reviewed racism as a social determinant of health.

Presenters: Dr. Onye Nnorom & Akilah Haneef-Jabari

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