University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
The Heinz Endowments, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Health Promot Pract. 2023 Sep;24(5):828-840. doi: 10.1177/15248399221133726. Epub 2022 Nov 11.
From the onset of the pandemic in the United States, racial disparities in COVID-19 outcomes have been evident. In April 2020, several events prompted a concerned group of colleagues to form the Black Equity Coalition (BEC), a Black-led coalition in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, which brings together professionals from multiple sectors who aim to ensure an equitable response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several significant milestones have been achieved, and this article describes the development, functioning, and outcomes of the Coalition in the first 15 months of operation (April 2020-June 2021). COVID-19 was the reason for such an unprecedented effort, but this BEC infrastructure will be needed long after COVID-19 is controlled. In addition to short-term activities and reactive measures to prevent and mitigate COVID-19 in Black populations, the BEC is serving as a crucial link between government, health care stakeholders, and communities to produce long-term systemic change.
从美国大流行开始，COVID-19 结果中的种族差异就很明显。2020 年 4 月，有几件事促使一群忧心忡忡的同事成立了黑人权益联盟（BEC），这是宾夕法尼亚州阿勒格尼县的一个黑人领导的联盟，汇集了来自多个领域的专业人士，旨在确保对 COVID-19 大流行做出公平的反应。已经取得了几个重要的里程碑，本文描述了联盟在运营的头 15 个月（2020 年 4 月至 2021 年 6 月）期间的发展、运作和成果。COVID-19 是促成这一史无前例努力的原因，但即使 COVID-19 得到控制，这种 BEC 基础设施也将是必要的。除了针对黑人群体预防和减轻 COVID-19 的短期活动和被动措施外，BEC 还充当政府、医疗保健利益相关者和社区之间的重要纽带，以产生长期的系统变革。
