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6 Institutionalizing Racial Equity
6 Institutionalizing Racial Equity
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1 This chapter is the rapporteur's synopsis of the presentation made by Jessica Kang, a senior research scientist at the Center for Social Inclusion, and Rebekah Gowler, the director of health equity capacity development at the Center for Health Equity in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the statements have not been endorsed or verified by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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All of the center's work rests on a set of core values: racial and social justice, community power, accountability, diversity and inclusion, and data- and community-informed practice. CENTER FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION CSI is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to catalyze local communities, government, and other public and private institutions to dismantle structural racial inequity, Kang said.
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She added that the health department also found it useful for appealing to shared values; talking explicitly about race, racism, and racial justice; countering dominant race frames; and offering practical solutions and action steps for people to be able to move and advance work that hopefully will continue to mobilize and garner additional support in the public health field and beyond in order to advance racial equity and social justice across cities.
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In 2015, Bassett published a perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine titled "#BlackLivesMatter: A Challenge to the Medical and Public Health Communities." In this piece, Gowler said, Bassett addressed her call to action against racism directly to the medical and public health communities and health professionals. Bassett identified key actions that practitioners of the field could take to advance racial equity: critical research, internal reform, and public advocacy.
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Bassett called for internal reform in the health department with the goal of strengthening and aligning internal institutional practices with the department's mission and goals to advance health equity externally. Without attention to the reform of the health department's own policies and practices, Bassett was concerned that its actions might make unintended contributions to the inequities that it sought to eliminate.
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There is a need to evaluate and track the progress and success of the internal reform efforts and also to ensure that the organization is tracking its racial equity goals and really measuring its success in reducing inequities in health outcomes across the city. Public Advocacy In Bassett's article in the New England Journal of Medicine she identified public advocacy as a key strategy for health professionals to use in various forms, such as working with policy makers to direct policy change, writing editorials and opinion pieces, and sharing a new narrative and framework, Gowler said.
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There is a need, Gowler said, to move the conversation in that direction through training, through the critical analysis of data, and through engaging with communities and residents of neighborhoods and cities to hear their experiences and move beyond the traditional quantitative data analysis by using more storytelling to connect to peoples' hearts and minds. DISCUSSION During the discussion, Gowler suggested that there is a role for the federal government to use its national platform to amplify and support racial and health equity work happening at the local level in health departments and across communities in the United States.
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52 FRAMING THE DIALOGUE they are positioned to have impact through their engagement with so many communities and partners across the nation. She added that they are thinking about how to reframe messages because of the demographic shifts across the nation and about the need to address a range of inequities that the nation is confronting.
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