Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY, United States.
Department of Public Health Education, School of Health and Human Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, United States.
Front Public Health. 2022 Apr 26;10:876161. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.876161. eCollection 2022.
Latina women and other ethnic and racial groups continue to be underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, including public health. This underrepresentation of people from diverse backgrounds and lived experiences in academic public health and other scientific disciplines is a form of epistemic oppression, exclusion that hinders contribution to knowledge production and advancement. Our analysis of 2021 data from the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health indicates that Latinos/as represented only 6.0% of all instructional faculty and 6.1% of all tenured faculty at schools and programs of public health. We discuss the ways in which sociopolitical contexts, family-level dynamics and gendered norms, and institutional contexts hamper Latinas' full participation in academia. We propose solutions such as redefining metrics for success, leadership accountability, equity analyses, cluster hiring initiatives, and instituting structured mentoring and leadership programs. Bold actions are needed if we are to advance the scientific enterprise and address the diversity and equity problem in public health.
拉丁裔女性和其他族裔及种族群体在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域，包括公共卫生领域的代表性仍然不足。这种来自不同背景和生活经历的人在学术公共卫生和其他科学学科中的代表性不足是一种知识压迫形式，这种排斥阻碍了对知识生产和发展的贡献。我们对公共卫生学校和项目协会 2021 年数据的分析表明，拉丁裔仅占公共卫生学校和项目所有教学人员的 6.0%和所有终身教职员工的 6.1%。我们讨论了社会政治背景、家庭层面的动态和性别规范以及制度背景如何阻碍拉丁裔女性全面参与学术界。我们提出了一些解决方案，例如重新定义成功的衡量标准、领导层问责制、公平分析、集群招聘计划以及制定结构化的指导和领导计划。如果我们要推进科学事业并解决公共卫生领域的多样性和公平性问题，就需要采取大胆的行动。
