Congressional Briefing: Ending the Triple Pandemic: Advancing Racial Equity by Promoting Health, Economic Opportunity and Criminal Justice Reform

On July 30, Trust for America’s Health, American Public Health Association, NAACP, the National Black Nurses Association, the National Collaborative for Health Equity, and the National Medical Association hosted a virtual Congressional briefing focused on the disproportionate health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Black community and other communities of color, and how structural racism drives systemic inequities in health, the economy, and criminal justice.

TFAH and our co-sponsors have compiled the following resources:

• Congressional Briefing Recording  (July 30, 2020)
• COVID-19 and the Disproportionate Impacts on Communities of Color, TFAH (July 29, 2020)
• Creating the Healthiest Nation: Advancing Health Equity, American Public Health Association (2020)
• National Collaborative for Health Equity Fact Sheet (2020)
• Allegories on race and racism, Dr. Camara Jones, TEDxEmory (July 10, 2014)
• CDC COVID-19 Response Health Equity Strategy (July 2020)
• We Hold These Truths, AAC&U and TRHT Institute (2020)
• Minimum Wages and Racial Inequality, Derenoncourt and Montialouix (June 26, 2020)
• Examining the Black-White Wealth Gap, Brookings (February 27, 2020)
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Use of Paid Family and Medical Leave: Evidence from Four Nationally Represented Datasets, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (January 2019)
• Toward the Science and Practice of Anti-Racism: Launching  A National Campaign Against Racism, Dr. Camara Jones, Ethnicity & Disease (2018)
• How Understanding Racism Can Move Public Health to Action, Dr. Camara Jones, The Nation’s Health, APHA (February 2016)
• Kelly Report: Health Disparities in America, Congressional Black Caucus Braintrust (2015)
• Systems of Power, Axes of Inequity Parallels, Intersections, Braiding and Strands, Dr. Camara Jones, Medical Care (October 2014)
• Addressing the Social Determinants of Children’s Health: A Cliff Analogy, Dr. Camara Jones, et al.  Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (2009)
• Levels of Racism: A Theoretical Framework and a Gardener’s Tale, Dr. Camara Jones, American Journal of Public Health (August 2000)

Pending Congressional Legislation:

• COVID-19 Bias and Anti-Racism Training Act – Press Release (July 15, 2020)
• A Resolution in Support of a U.S. Commission on Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation – Press Release (June 1, 2020)
• The Community Solutions for COVID-19 Act – Press Release (May 29, 2020)
• Improving Social Determinants of Health Act of 2020 – Fact Sheet (May 11, 2020)
• Rep. Chuy García leads Tri-Caucus to Introduce Landmark Health Equity and Accountability Act – Press Release (April 28, 2020)

Trust for America’s Health thanks our Congressional briefing cosponsors:

American Public Health Association

NAACP

National Black Nurses Association

National Collaborative for Health Equity

National Medical Association

Panelists

• The Honorable Representative Robin Kelly (D-IL-2)
• Derrick Johnson, JD
  President & CEO, NAACP
• Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD
  Senior Fellow, Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine; Radcliffe Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University; Former President of the American Public Health Association
• Trevon Logan, PhD
  Hazel C. Youngberg Distinguished Professor of Economics; Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University

Moderator

• J. Nadine Gracia, MD, MSCE
  Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Trust for America’s Health