Structural Racism: A Call to Action for Health and Health Disparities Research

Naomi Priest^{1

2}, David R Williams^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Social Research and Methods, College of Arts & Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
² Population Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
⁴ Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Editorial

Naomi Priest et al. Ethn Dis. 2021.

. 2021 May 20;31(Suppl 1):285-288.

doi: 10.18865/ed.31.S1.285. eCollection 2021.

Naomi Priest^{1

2}, David R Williams^{3

4}

¹ Centre for Social Research and Methods, College of Arts & Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
² Population Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
⁴ Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Ethnicity; Health Disparities Research; Race; Structural Racism.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing Interests: None declared.

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