The Road to Systemic Change: Health Justice, Equity, and Anti-Racism
Placing community first and allowing them to drive solutions-based strategies is imperative to the health justice movement.
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Read more: The Centrality of Social Movements in Addressing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic The Centrality of Social Movements in Addressing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Our research shows that social movement activism is an integral part of service delivery for sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence.
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Read more: Health Justice and the Criminal Legal System: From Reform to Transformation Health Justice and the Criminal Legal System: From Reform to Transformation
What if squad cars and SWAT teams were the last line of response to social dysfunction, rather than the first?
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Read more: Community-Based Response to Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 Pandemic Community-Based Response to Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 Pandemic
The pandemic showed that community-based supports can foster safety and accountability without requiring state intervention.
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Read more: Research and Regulation of Less-Lethal Projectiles Critically Needed Research and Regulation of Less-Lethal Projectiles Critically Needed
To protect human rights and civil liberties, we must better understand and regulate projectiles, which are dangerous and poorly studied weapons.
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Read more: Police Should Not Be Enforcing Emergency Public Health Orders Police Should Not Be Enforcing Emergency Public Health Orders
State and local governments face twin crises: halting the spread of COVID-19 and grappling with the systemic racism of American policing.
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Read more: Law as a Determinant of Police Violence Law as a Determinant of Police Violence
Improving the health of local communities involves rethinking the laws that govern how police interact with the people they serve.
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Read more: Black Men Carry the Cost of Police Violence Black Men Carry the Cost of Police Violence
About 1.5 million Black men are missing from daily life because of health challenges, economic instability, and over-policing.
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Read more: Black Women Can’t Breathe Black Women Can’t Breathe
Racism in health care, expressed through implicit and explicit biases, is the ultimate form of suffocation.
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Read more: The Hidden Cost of Misinformation: Harms from Opioid Hysteria Extend Beyond Overdose Deaths The Hidden Cost of Misinformation: Harms from Opioid Hysteria Extend Beyond Overdose Deaths
There is already enough harm from this tragedy, neither the government or media should be adding to it.
