In the United states, 2020 was an extraordinarily polarizing year characterized by the COVID-19 pandemic, social epidemics (i.e., racial violence, opioid crisis), and natural disasters. The public execution of a Black American man, George Floyd, at the hands of law enforcement, revealed anew the insidious, dehumanizing, and unacceptable impact of physical trauma, structural violence, systemic racism and social injustice, long overdue for acknowledgement and change. Many of us who conduct research on health disparities have found it increasingly difficult to reconcile this senseless act (and so many others) with the direction of our own programs of disparities and equity research.
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