US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and US Representative Ayanna Pressley (Hon.’21) (D-Mass.) joined Boston University’s School of Public Health and Center for Antiracist Research during a three-day program in April 2021 to explore the role of race in shaping health in the United States. Titled Antiracism as Health Policy: Race, COVID-19, and Policy Reform, the forum examined the deep-rooted racial disparities that have been exposed and exacerbated by the pandemic and discussed how to best address racial inequities through research, policy, and action.

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