CDC Part 2: CDC and Racism

Listen to hosts Samantha Spiers and Cameron Boozarjomehri end their two-part series on the CDC! On this episode, they discuss the letter some CDC employees sent to the CDC Director calling for the CDC to address the "ongoing and recurring acts of racism and discrimination" against black employees. Discussion includes an overview of the letter, statistics on health outcomes in black people compared to their white counterparts, and should racism be declared a public health crisis.

Sources:  

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/07/13/889769017/cdc-employees-call-out-agencys-toxic-culture-of-racial-aggression 

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/cdc-employees-call-on-agency-to-declare-racism-a-public-health-crisis/ 

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_07-508.pdf 

https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6986780-Cdc 

https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/aahealth/index.html# 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK425844/ 

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/200424 

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/race-and-health/ 

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/race-ethnicity.html 

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-inequalities-cdc/507-a770cfc8-9967-4359-b84d-12684c6aa46f 

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