{"id":5944,"date":"2020-06-05T17:19:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T21:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/?p=5944"},"modified":"2020-06-22T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T19:33:49","slug":"systemic-racism-what-can-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/2020\/06\/05\/systemic-racism-what-can-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Structural Racism &#8211; What Can We Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apha.org\/topics-and-issues\/health-equity\/racism-and-health\">Structural Racism<\/a> &#8211; What Can We Do? We can speak.<\/p>\n<p>As people, leaders can speak.\u00a0 We can each speak. NEPHTC appreciates the leaders of our institutions -Boston University School of Public Health and Boston University &#8211; who have spoken out against racism.\u00a0 We appreciate that they speak, and then speak again, showing that sometimes we need to refine our words.\u00a0 We admire the courage it takes to speak, to share, to receive feedback and then and to clarify.\u00a0 Speaking and learning about racism will require us to develop these muscles. Speaking, and getting feedback, is a first step toward a better community for our black and brown neighbors, and for ourselves.\u00a0 Please consider the following statements from our school and university leaders:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/sandro-galea\/\">Sandro Galea<\/a>, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/2020\/05\/29\/race-justice-and-covid-19\/\">Race, Justice, and COVID-19<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/announcement\/when-the-world-is-on-fire\/\">When the World is on Fire<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2020\/2020-the-great-american-trauma-sandro-galea\">2020: The Great American Trauma<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/president\/profile\/robert-a-brown\/\">Dr. Robert A. Brown<\/a>, President, Boston University<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/president\/our-challenge-in-a-time-of-crisis\/\">Our Challenge in a Time of Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/president\/following-up-on-mondays-letter-to-the-community\/\">Following up on Monday&#8217;s Letter to the Community<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a BUSPH community meeting, the new head of the Activist Lab, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/2020\/05\/29\/meet-craig-andrade-sphs-new-associate-dean-of-practice\/\">Craig Andrade<\/a>, Associate Dean of Public Health Practice, said, \u201cWe can all learn to connect the dots between a knee to the neck to systems change.\u201d Thank you Dean Andrade.\u00a0 NEPHTC is working with its community based partners on systems change for public health for medically undeserved\u00a0 &#8211; often black and brown &#8211; communities, .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Structural Racism &#8211; What Can We Do? We can speak. As people, leaders can speak.\u00a0 We can each speak. NEPHTC appreciates the leaders of our institutions -Boston University School of Public Health and Boston University &#8211; who have spoken out against racism.\u00a0 We appreciate that they speak, and then speak again, showing that sometimes we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[370,241,369,371,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5944"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5987,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions\/5987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}