Introduction to the Summer 2022 Issue of the RACE Series
The series highlights research conducted by the COVID-19 Task Force on Racism & Equity over the course of the COVID pandemic.
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Report Publish Date: July 21, 2022
This journal article introduces two papers published in the Rapid Assessment of COVID Evidence, or RACE, series, which shares the work of the COVID-19 Task Force on Racism & Equity.
Primary Takeaways
“Each article published in this issue—the methods paper by Amani et al and original research by Bradford et al respond in some way to the question, ‘Can health equity investigators monitor ourselves and our field critically through rapidly conducted COVID inequities research?’” the author writes.
Overview and Objectives
The author contextualizes and summarizes two papers, one on how to apply critical race theory to qualitative research on COVID-19 and health equity and the other on health department communication via Twitter during the early days of vaccinating people against COVID.
Hypothesis or Approach
The author compares how the two articles approach conducting research on health inequities in the middle of a pandemic.
How This Influences Change
“Expanding the methods in the health equity research toolbox and addressing institutional targets are both necessary to promote a culture of health equity,” the author writes.
Research: Go Deeper
This summer 2022 issue of Ethnicity & Disease includes two papers in the Rapid Assessment of COVID Evidence (RACE) Series, which will continue through the winter 2023 issue of the journal. The series highlights research conducted by the COVID-19 Task Force on Racism & Equity over the course of the COVID pandemic. It also shares methods for integrating public health critical race praxis (PHCRP)1 and other approaches into health equity research. The studies document the persistence of various forms of racism and other social injustices (eg, due to policing) as they manifest in the pandemic. They also examine key implications for COVID inequities.
Ethn Dis., July 21, 2022. doi: 10.18865/ed.32.3.239
Research Team
This study and report was conducted and created by the following:
- Ford CL
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