Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore.
Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
BMJ Glob Health. 2023 Mar;8(3). doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-010376.
Two years since the murder of George Floyd, there has been unprecedented attention to racial justice by global public health organisations. Still, there is scepticism that attention alone will lead to real change.
We identified the highest-ranked 15 public health universities, academic journals and funding agencies, and used a standardised data extraction template to analyse the organisation's governance structures, leadership dynamics and public statements on antiracism since 1 May 2020.
We found that the majority of organisations (26/45) have not made any public statements in response to calls for antiracism actions, and that decision-making bodies are still lacking diversity and representation from the majority of the world's population. Of those organisations that have made public statements (19/45), we identified seven types of commitments including policy change, financial resources, education and training. Most commitments were not accompanied by accountability measures, such as setting goals or developing metrics of progress, which raises concerns about how antiracism commitments are being tracked, as well as how they can be translated into tangible action.
The absence of any kind of public statement paired with the greater lack of commitments and accountability measures calls into question whether leading public health organisations are concretely committed to racial justice and antiracism reform.
乔治·弗洛伊德（George Floyd）遇害已经两年了，全球公共卫生组织前所未有地关注种族正义问题。然而，仍有人怀疑仅关注这一问题是否会带来真正的改变。
我们确定了排名最高的 15 所公共卫生大学、学术期刊和资助机构，并使用标准化的数据提取模板，分析了自 2020 年 5 月 1 日以来组织的治理结构、领导动态以及关于反种族主义的公开声明。
我们发现，大多数组织（26/45）没有针对反种族主义行动的呼吁发表任何公开声明，决策机构仍然缺乏来自世界大多数人口的多样性和代表性。在那些发表了公开声明的组织（19/45）中，我们确定了七种类型的承诺，包括政策变革、财政资源、教育和培训。大多数承诺都没有伴随问责措施，例如设定目标或制定进展衡量标准，这让人质疑如何跟踪反种族主义承诺，以及如何将其转化为实际行动。
缺乏任何形式的公开声明，再加上缺乏承诺和问责措施，这让人质疑主要的公共卫生组织是否真正致力于种族正义和反种族主义改革。
