Activist Lab -- Racial Equity Data Roadmap

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The dual crises of COVID-19 and racial reckoning in the United States have challenged individuals [...]and organizations alike to confront the history of structural racism that has perpetuated health inequities and racial disparities throughout the country for people of color.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) had begun carving a path to achieve racial equity in the Commonwealth by using racialized data—stratified data that acknowledges how people of certain races are impacted by systems of privilege and oppression—to inform policies and programs that can close these racial gaps in health.

On Wednesday, February 17, the SPH Activist Lab hosted a virtual event featuring two DPH epidemiologists and School of Public Health alums who presented a toolkit they created as part of this process, to guide programs and organizations interested in using racialized data to improve racial equity work in their practice.

Sarah Lederberg Stone (SPH’05, ‘14) and Christine Silva (CAS’11, SPH’13) are part of DPH’s Racial Equity Strategic Pathway Implementation Team (RESPIT) that developed the Racial Equity Data Road Map, a comprehensive summary of guiding questions, tools, and resources to enable users to improve how they collect and implement data to eliminate structural racism and promote racial equity.

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