Public Health 482 - Race, Public Health & Policy

Fall
2026
01
3.00
Airin Martinez

TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM

UMass Amherst
20108
SPHHS HUB Room 103
admartinez@umass.edu
This course explores historical and contemporary approaches to race and ethnicity, racism, and public health. The course will also explore how biological constructions of race are shaped by policies and institutional practices and continue to be challenged in the production of biomedical and public health research and biotechnological development. We also present research on the embodiment of racism from multiple levels (e.g., structural, institutional, and interpersonal).

Open to sophomore, junior, and senior Public Health majors only. Students who cannot self-enroll and wish to be placed on a waiting list for this course, please submit a request on https://tinyurl.com/PHWaitlist-Electives

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.