ChangeLab Solutions, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Law Program have introduced a new two-part training series that offers insight into how public health laws affect social determinants of health and health equity. To promote health equity, it is important to first understand how laws drive structural racism, which creates and reinforces health inequities. Public health practitioners can then use this knowledge to counteract laws and policies that have contributed to multi-generational harm.

Everything that a health department does — whether acting as an employer, regulator, data collector, service provider, educator, or funder — should be geared to advancing health equity. To promote health equity, it is important to first understand how laws drive the structural discrimination that creates and reinforces health inequities. Practitioners can then use this knowledge to reform public health laws and policies that have contributed to multigenerational harm.

This free training — brought to you by ChangeLab Solutions and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Law Program. Part 1 discusses how public health laws affect social determinants of health and health equity. After you complete this training, we encourage you to watch Part 2, which describes actions that health departments can take to close inequitable gaps in health outcomes and how health departments can use the tools of law and policy to address the social determinants of health and advance health equity.

Learn more HERE.

Source: ChangeLab Solutions