Introduction to Public Health Critical Race Praxis

• Professionals/Continuing Education
• Non-degree Special Standing

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other entities (local public health departments, foundations) have begun calling for research and evidence-based practice targeting the health impacts of racism. 

The Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP) provides an excellent set of resources to help researchers and practitioners conduct the work with fidelity to Critical Race Theory (CRT), which is the gold standard for examining racial phenomena.

Developed more than a decade ago by Ford and Airhihenbuwa, PHCRP comprises a set of anti-racism concepts integrated throughout a systematic, four-stage, racism-conscious for any empirical or applied research, clinical practice, or prevention activities (e.g., intervention development).

This course uses the structure of PHCRP to explain the relationship between PHCRP and CRT, introduce each of PHCRP's key concepts and methods, differentiate between conventional and critical orientations to the work and practice applying the full PHCRP model to a research, practice, or healthcare endeavor.

The course is open to people of all skill levels, ranging from no prior racism or CRT knowledge to fully conversant in these areas. The course is open to both researchers and practitioners. There are no prerequisites; however, participants will gain more from the course if they previously completed an introductory course in statistics, epidemiology, behavioral science, and health disparities or health equity.

• Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities and racism undermined health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and systemic levels.
• Define 10 key PHCRP concepts
• Outline the 4-stage process for implementing PHCRP
• Use PHCRP concepts and methods to design a program or project
• Design a population-based policy, program, project or intervention.