By Milford Greene PHD MPH
A Public Health Crisis 

Racism in America

 


In Public Health Too? In the June 4 – June 10, 2020 edition of The Monroe Dispatch (see Racism in America: A Public Health Crisis, page 10), I stated that top public health officials are calling racism a public health crisis. By the time the ink had dried on the page of my essay, the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) was being accused of discrimination. A complaint filed with the Office of Inspector General on behalf of at least 10 black epidemiologists employed with the agency alleges they were excluded from the core COVID-19 response team, despite having what they called equal...



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