U.S. Health Justice Concentration
The U.S. Health Justice Concentration prepares students from any YSPH department to analyze and address systems and processes that perpetuate health injustice in the United States, including how past and present systems of privilege and power related to race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other identities, create unequal burdens on health that are avoidable and unjust. Students will develop tools to analyze public health research methods, discourse, and practice using a health justice framework and develop skills in organizing, advocacy, and policy. Though not limited to Connecticut, the concentration emphasizes local health needs and partners with local organizations working to advance health justice.