The CDC recently declared racism as a threat to public health. But when it comes to dismantling white supremacy in public health, action must be taken beyond issuing statements declaring racism a public health crisis, says Sirry Alang, associate professor of sociology and health, medicine, and society at Lehigh University.
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A Maine state representative from Chelsea is under fire for using a racist term for COVID-19 and downplaying the disease’s seriousness in an email to an Asian-American resident.
Republican Rep. Michael Lemelin, who represents the Augusta-area towns of Chelsea, Jefferson, Nobleboro and Whitefield, called COVID-19 the “China virus” in an email to a Windham resident concerned about his signature on a letter calling on state officials to ease restrictions on full-time school.
House Speaker Ryan Fecteau last week called Lemelin’s use of “China virus” “a racist trope” that was “offensive and wrong,” but said it wasn’t his responsibility to discipline Lemelin.
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The CDC recently declared racism as a threat to public health. But when it comes to dismantling white supremacy in public health, action must be taken beyond issuing statements declaring racism a public health crisis, says Sirry Alang, associate professor of sociology and health, medicine, and society at Lehigh University. A new analysis from Alang and colleagues examines the three core functions of public health assessment, policy development and assurance and the ten recently revised essential public health services (EPHSs) to offer strategies public health can follow to dismantle white supremacy.
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