This installment of the Let’s Talk series introduces the concept of Whiteness to public health audiences. Through definitions of Whiteness, White privilege and settler colonialism, the resource provides examples of how Whiteness is manifested in public health. The resource also includes insights for practitioners on how to centralize the disruption of Whiteness as an explicit focus in work to improve the health and well-being of communities.
This Let’s Talk document discusses the ethics embedded in of health equity. It draws on the concepts of currencies and principles of justice as they relate to interventions designed to improve health equity.
This curated reading list includes resources that explore the ethical foundations of health equity and the implications for public health action.
This Let’s Talk document positions values as structural drivers of health equity, influencing priorities and action and at the individual, organizational and societal levels. It pairs well with another Let’s Talk document — Let’s Talk: Foundations of equity.
This list of resources is designed to increase understanding of climate change as an urgent public health issue. It is also meant to situate climate change and health equity as being inextricably linked and support emerging public health practice in this area.