ArticleEthnicity & disease2023
An Equity-Based Scoring System for Evaluating Surveillance-Related Harm in Public Health Crises.
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- Looking into the black mirror of the overdose crisis: Assessing the harms of collaborative surveillance technologies in the United States response.Medical anthropology quarterly · 2025Article
- Racism in public health authorities-A scoping review and situational analysis.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Rapid Assessment of COVID Evidence (RACE): Continuing Health Equity Research Beyond the Series.Ethnicity & disease · 2024Article
- Commentary: Public Health Surveillance and Health Equity: Cause for Concern.Ethnicity & disease · 2023Article
- Developing an Ethical/Social Justice Surveillance System (ESJSS): A Methodological Framework.Journal of healthcare, science and the humanitiesArticle
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Abstract
Background: Although surveillance systems used to mitigate disasters serve essential public health functions, communities of color have experienced disproportionate harms (eg, criminalization) as a result of historic and enhanced surveillance. Methods: To address this, we developed and piloted a novel, equity-based scoring system to evaluate surveillance systems regarding their potential and actual risk of adverse effects on communities made vulnerable through increased exposure to policing, detention/incarceration, deportation, and disruption of access to social services or public resources. To develop the scoring system, we reviewed the literature and surveyed an expert panel on surveillance to identify specific harms (eg, increased policing) that occur through surveillance approaches. Results: Scores were based on type of information collected (individual and/or neighborhood level) and evidence of sharing information with law enforcement. Scores were 0 (no risk of harm identified), 1 (potential for risk), 2 (evidence of risk), and U (data not publicly accessible). To pilot the scoring system, 44 surveillance systems were identified between June 2020 and October 2020 through an environmental scan of systems directly related to COVID-19 (n=21), behavioral and health-related services (n=11), and racism and racism-related factors (n=12). A score of 0-2 was assigned to 91% (n=40) of the systems; 9% were scored U; 30% (n=13) scored a 0. Half scored a 1 (n=22), indicating a "potential for the types of harm of concern in this analysis." "Evidence of harm," a score of 2, was found for 12% (n=5). Conclusions: The potential for surveillance systems to compromise the health and well-being of racialized and/or vulnerable populations has been understudied. This project developed and piloted a scoring system to accomplish this equity-based imperative. The nobler pursuits of public health to improve the health for all must be reconciled with these potential harms.
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