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ArticlePublic health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)

Public Health Accountability in Action: The King County Pandemic and Racism Community Advisory Group.

Kirsten Wysen, Matías Valenzuela, Wendy E Barrington, Yordanos Teferi, Aselefech Evans, Bereket Kiros, Michelle Merriweather, Martha Zuniga

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Article in Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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8 authors.

Kirsten WysenPublic Health-Seattle & King County, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2149-0339
Matías ValenzuelaPublic Health-Seattle & King County, Seattle, WA, USA.
Wendy E BarringtonUniversity of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA.
Yordanos TeferiCommunity Health Board Coalition, Seattle, WA, USA.
Aselefech EvansPublic Health-Seattle & King County, Seattle, WA, USA.
Bereket KirosCoalition of Immigrants, Refugees & Communities of Color, Seattle, WA, USA.
Michelle MerriweatherUrban League of Metropolitan Seattle, Seattle, WA, USA.
Martha ZunigaEntre Hermanos, Seattle, WA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

After a tumultuous 3 years of pandemic-, political-, and race-related unrest in the United States, the public is demanding accountability to communities of color (defined here as American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and Hispanic people) to rectify historic and contemporary injustices that perpetuate health inequities and threaten public health. Structural racism pervades all major societal systems and exposes people to detrimental social determinants of health. Disrupting structural racism within public health systems is essential to advancing health equity and requires organized partnerships between health departments and community leaders. As those who are most affected by structural racism, communities of color are the experts in knowing its impacts. This case study describes the King County Pandemic and Racism Community Advisory Group (PARCAG) and its use of an innovative accountability tool. The tool facilitated institutional transparency and accountability in the adoption of community recommendations. PARCAG was influential in shaping Public Health-Seattle & King County's COVID-19 and antiracism work, with 66 of 75 (88%) recommendations adopted partially or fully. For example, a fully adopted recommendation in May 2020 was to report King County COVID-19 case data by race and ethnicity, and a partially adopted recommendation was to translate COVID-19 information into additional languages. PARCAG members were recruited from a 2019 advisory board on Census 2020 and were adept at shifting to advising on COVID-19 and equitable practices and policies. Organizations that have made declarations that racism is a public health crisis should center the experiences, expertise, and leadership of communities of color in accountable ways when developing and implementing strategies to disrupt and repair the effects of structural racism and efforts to promote and protect public health.

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Advisory CommitteesCOVID-19Public HealthSocial ResponsibilityHealth EquityHumansPandemicsRacismSARS-CoV-2Social Determinants of HealthWashingtoncapacity buildingcommunity healthCOVID-19public health practiceracism

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PMID38344985
PMCPMC11339679

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