Context Matters: Affirmative Action, Public Health, and the Use of Population-Level Data
The Court’s rejection of group-level data in SFFA portends troubling implications for health equity and health policy.

The Court’s rejection of group-level data in SFFA portends troubling implications for health equity and health policy.
Public health law needs its own long-term plan. Such a strategy must re-establish salus populi, the recognition that public health is central to law.
The American Medical Association has failed to promote greater racial inclusion in its flagship publication, JAMA, despite an explicit pledge to do so.
Collectively with these contributors, we aim to define the contours of the health justice movement and debates within it.
The legal profession has not only the ability, but also the responsibility, to address longstanding systemic harms.
Distributing vaccines equitably at the level of geographical units such as districts or nation-states may obfuscate injustices.
Placing community first and allowing them to drive solutions-based strategies is imperative to the health justice movement.
During the pandemic, community-based organizations filled many gaps by delivering services that local governments could not provide.
It’s time to re-envision and invest in a new public health infrastructure, one that is equipped and authorized to respond to the global crises we’re facing.
I grew up in the South Bronx, insulated from the absence of health justice until the fourth grade, when I began attending private school.