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November 2023
BIPOC and American Indian Staff and Faculty Brown Bag Lunch
Bring your lunch and join other faculty and staff in the Dean’s Office Conference Room from 12:00pm to 1:30pm. The DEI Office will provide light refreshments. While this event is open to all faculty and staff, regardless of race, ethnicity, or national origin, it will center the experiences of Black, Indigenous, people of color, and American Indian faculty and staff.
Find out more »Antiracism 101 training
With the School of Public Health moving towards becoming antiracist, it is important to provide SPH community members an opportunity to understand what that really means. In this 60 minute interactive session, participants will learn what antiracism is, how it connects to our mission as a School and discuss ways one can begin to approach their work and role within the SPH with an antiracist lens. All SPH faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend. This is a 2…
Find out more »Antiracism 102 training
With the School of Public Health moving towards becoming antiracist, it is important to provide SPH community members an opportunity to understand what that really means. In this 60 minute interactive session, participants will learn what antiracism is, how it connects to our mission as a School and discuss ways one can begin to approach their work and role within the SPH with an antiracist lens. Please only attend this session if you attended part one on November 9.
Find out more »Justice in Public Health: The Conditions for Nourishment: Notes on Food Justice, Delight, and the Black Radical Imagination
This talk draws from previous ethnographic research conducted in Washington, D.C., new research on prison agriculture, and lessons learned from community-based organizations to offer insights into how to create equitable food systems. Specifically, this talk moves beyond the biological imperative of access to healthy food to explore the social and cultural significance of creating meals and eating as one way to explore how we should embrace delight and imagination as core tenets of creating more just food futures.Dr. Ashanté ReeseAbout…
Find out more »December 2023
Justice in Public Health: Is the US Opioid Epidemic a White Problem? Stories of the Black Experience in Minnesota
In Partnership with the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health Seminar Series The US drug overdose epidemic is often portrayed as a white epidemic. But this masks its very real impacts on communities of color. Dr. Smith and community partners from the African American Survivor Services will discuss their ongoing research collaboration exploring a key aspect of these health disparities: access to addiction treatment in Minnesota's Black community. About the speaker: Dr. Kumi Smith is an Assistant Professor in the…
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