How to Talk About Structural and Systemic Racism | Ep #22

Health Comm Central

If you work in public health, you are most likely well aware of the concepts of structural, systemic, and institutional racism and their impact on people’s ability to live long and healthy lives. How do you get more comfortable with explaining these concepts to other people outside public health, especially audiences whose help you need to implement policy, systems, and environmental changes that can help dismantle systemic racism?
In this episode, we talk about the importance of examples and stories to explain the realities of structural racism. We also address three big challenges or questions that may be raised by the audience and how you can respond in ways that keep the conversation going.

Resources:

• Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, And Approaches To Dismantling | Health Affairs
• How to Explain Structural, Institutional and Systemic Racism | MSW@USC
• What is structural racism? | American Medical Association (ama-assn.org)
• New study underscores the role of race and poverty in COVID-19 (massgeneral.org)
• Redlining - Wikipedia
• Racist redlining policies still have an impact on health - Lown Institute
• Redlining story from Connecticut
• Honoring Dr. Shalon Irving, A Champion for Health Equity | Health Affairs

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