A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will plan and execute a two-day public workshop that will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and other relevant stakeholders to identify and discuss the sources and mechanisms through which structural racism operates. The workshop will address: how structural racism contributes to health inequities by race and ethnicity; the degree to which structural health inequities are explained by place-based factors and historical and contemporary experiences/exposures unique to people of color (e.g., immigration, segregation, incarceration, health care); the data and methods that are needed to further study these topics, such as measuring structural racism; and policy and other interventions at different levels (e.g., individual, family, community) that would help alleviate health inequities.
After the workshop, proceedings of a workshop of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.