Eliminating health inequities requires undoing systemic and institutional racism in
society and repairing past harms. The public health and preventive medicine workforce
has an important role to play in reaching this goal, but it will require shifting
the approach to training and capacity building. Public health and medical training
programs are needed, including schools of public health and medicine at universities
and workforce development programs, to adopt antiracist pedagogy principles. These
principles can help to ensure that training programs have both the content and processes
that enable the future and current health workforce to take meaningful action toward
racial equity and justice in our society. This paper starts by defining antiracist
pedagogy, and 6 key principles are set forth. Then, the authors describe how integrating
antiracist pedagogy into training programs is a key strategy for addressing racial
health inequities. The paper closes by providing considerations and recommendations
for the field of public health and preventive medicine for more fully adopting antiracist
pedagogy principles.
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