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Structural Racism and
Rigorous Models of
Social Inequity

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Linda Casola, Rapporteur

Committee on Population

Division of Behavioral and
Social Sciences and Education

Proceedings of a Workshop

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PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR A WORKSHOP ON STRUCTURAL RACISM AND RIGOROUS MODELS OF SOCIAL INEQUITY

HEDWIG (HEDY) LEE (Chair), Duke University

RENÉ D. FLORES, University of Chicago

MARGARET T. HICKEN, University of Michigan

TREVON D. LOGAN, The Ohio State University

JENNIFER J. MANLY, Columbia University

DAVID T. TAKEUCHI, University of Washington

Staff

MALAY K. MAJMUNDAR, Study Director

JOSHUA LANG, Senior Program Assistant

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COMMITTEE ON POPULATION

ANNE R. PEBLEY (Chair), University of California, Los Angeles

EMILY M. AGREE, The Johns Hopkins University

DEBORAH BALK, City University of New York

ANN K. BLANC, The Population Council (retired)

COURTNEY C. COILE, Wellesley College

SONALDE DESAI, University of Maryland

DANA A. GLEI, Georgetown University

ROBERT A. HUMMER, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

HEDWIG (HEDY) LEE, Duke University

TREVON D. LOGAN, The Ohio State University

JENNIFER J. MANLY, Columbia University

JENNA NOBLES, University of Wisconsin–Madison

FERNANDO RIOSMENA, University of Colorado Boulder

DAVID T. TAKEUCHI, University of Washington

Staff

MALAY K. MAJMUNDAR, Director

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Acknowledgments

This document summarizes the discussions and presentations at the Workshop on Structural Racism and Rigorous Models of Social Inequity. Held as a hybrid meeting in Washington, DC, on May 16–17, 2022, the workshop was convened by the Committee on Population of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and it was sponsored by the National Institute on Aging.

This Proceedings has been prepared by the workshop rapporteur as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop. The planning committee’s role was limited to planning and convening the workshop. The views contained in the proceedings are those of individual workshop participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all workshop participants, the planning committee, or the National Academies.

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We thank the following individuals for their review of this proceedings: Hedwig Lee, Duke University. We also thank staff reader Kelly L. Robbins for reading and providing helpful comments on the proceedings manuscript.

Although the reviewers listed above provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the content of the

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proceedings, nor did they see the final draft before its release. The review of this proceedings was overseen by Mark D. Hayward, University of Texas at Austin. He was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this proceedings was carried out in accordance with the standards of the National Academies and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content rests entirely with the rapporteur and the National Academies.

Malay K. Majmundar, Director
Committee on Population

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Acronyms and Abbreviations

AIAN American Indian or Alaska Native
BSR Division of Behavioral and Social Research
CARHE Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity
MRI magnetic resonance imaging
NACA National Advisory Council on Aging
NIA National Institute on Aging
NIH National Institutes of Health
NLSY National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
SES socioeconomic status
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Structural racism refers to the public and private policies, institutional practices, norms, and cultural representations that inherently create unequal freedom, opportunity, value, resources, advantage, restrictions, constraints, or disadvantage for individuals and populations according to their race and ethnicity both across the life course and between generations. Developing a research agenda on structural racism includes consideration of the historical and contemporary policies and other structural factors that explicitly or implicitly affect the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities, as well as strategies to measure those factors.

The Committee on Population of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 2-day public workshop on May 16-17, 2022, to identify and discuss the mechanisms through which structural racism operates, with a particular emphasis on health and well-being; to develop an agenda for future research and data collection on structural racism; and to strengthen the evidence base for policy making. Speaker presentations and workshop discussions provided insights into known sources of structural racism and rigorous models of health inequity, revealed novel sources and approaches informed by other disciplines and related fields, and highlighted key research and data priorities for future work on structural racism and health inequity.

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