Power and Health Equity

In this course, we explore the topic of power, how it relates to the root causes of health inequity explored in previous courses, and how public health might leverage and share power to advance health equity. In addition to developing an understanding of power and how unjust power relations have led to inequities, we explore ways that we can conceptualize and analyze power dynamics related to advancing equity. Our goal is to change the way public health uses its own power and how it works to shift power to communities who have been marginalized by systems of oppression, both of which are core to advancing health equity and improving everyone’s health.