University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA.
Health Educ Behav. 2023 Aug;50(4):465-472. doi: 10.1177/10901981231177085.
The societal distrust of public health alongside the complex, intersecting, and large public health crises of today and our future requires a transformation of the education of the next generation of public health leaders. The field of public health's goals of health equity for all cannot be advanced until our field interrogates and resists the prison industrial complex (PIC), which maintains White supremacy and (re)produces health inequities. As current and former public health students, we propose incorporating abolition of the PIC as a political vision, structural and power analysis, and organizing strategy into the public health curriculum. We highlight gaps in the public health curriculum and the existing similarities between stated goals of abolition and public health. We propose calls to action for individuals, faculty, and schools of public health to interrogate the carceral nature of public health and work toward contributing to the positive project of an abolitionist future.
社会对公共卫生的不信任，以及当今和未来复杂、相互交织的大规模公共卫生危机，要求对下一代公共卫生领导人的教育进行转变。公共卫生领域的全民健康公平目标，只有在我们的领域对监狱工业综合体（PIC）进行质问和抵制时，才能得到推进，因为该综合体维持着白人至上主义，并（重新）造成健康不平等。作为当前和前任公共卫生学生，我们提议将废除 PIC 作为政治愿景、结构和权力分析以及组织战略纳入公共卫生课程。我们强调了公共卫生课程中的差距，以及废除目标与公共卫生之间存在的相似之处。我们提议呼吁个人、教师和公共卫生学校质问公共卫生的监禁性质，并努力为一个废除主义的未来做出积极贡献。
