{"id":221,"date":"2022-02-25T17:03:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T21:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heal\/?p=221"},"modified":"2023-04-11T11:28:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:28:20","slug":"bu-experts-profs-copeland-lee-discuss-black-health-wellness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heal\/2022\/02\/25\/bu-experts-profs-copeland-lee-discuss-black-health-wellness\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Experts: Profs. Copeland & Lee Discuss Black Health & Wellness"},"content":{"rendered":"

The intersection of social work and health\u2013particularly when it comes to people of color\u2019s lives and experiences\u2013is an essential pillar to building a more equitable health care system. For Black History Month, BU Experts talked to professors across the university about their work to progress Black health & wellness, including BUSSW Professors Phillipe Copeland and Christina Lee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Excerpt from \u201c<\/i><\/b>Black History Month 2022: Promoting, Recognizing, and Celebrating Black Health and Wellness<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u201d by Katherine Gianni, Thalia Platta, & Molly Gluck:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\"quotation<\/a>Dr. Phillipe Copeland, abolitionist and clinical assistant professor at BU\u2019s School of Social Work: \u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019 has reminded us that the ultimate cost of systemic anti-Black racism is life itself. One of the most brutal and grotesque life-taking systems affecting Black lives is the criminal legal system. In recent years, the American Public Health Association has drawn attention to this problem, including law enforcement violence and carceral systems. My work for health justice prioritizes exposing the harm done through law enforcement violence and carceral systems, countering narratives that rationalize it, and building institutional capacity to mitigate and help people recover from it. My ultimate goal is to reduce and ultimately replace \u2018law and order\u2019 approaches to public safety with public health approaches.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Christina Lee, associate professor at BU\u2019s School of Social Work and director of the\u00a0 research core at the Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health: What has set me apart from many psychologists, especially when I started out, is that I have always looked upstream to understand the causes of unhealthy substance use in minority groups \u2014 through both social context and conditions of living \u2014 and targeted those causes in my intervention work. Unhealthy substance use is rooted in structural conditions and social policies, such as the War On Drugs, that lead to systematic marginalization, deprivation and inequity. We have tended to view unhealthy substance use solely as the result of individual failings. However, substance use, particularly among minority groups, is the result of structural determinants such as racist policies, practices and stigma.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The intersection of social work and health\u2013particularly when it comes to people of color\u2019s lives and experiences\u2013is an essential pillar to building a more equitable health care system. For Black History Month, BU Experts talked to professors across the university about their work to progress Black health & wellness, including BUSSW Professors Phillipe Copeland and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}