In 2019, amid a national conversation about climate change as a public health issue, the accrediting body for the nation’s public health schools posted an article on its blog noting that its curriculum standards include many of the issues raised in the debate.
One of these core competencies highlighted in the blog post, titled “When current events collide with CEPH competencies,” asked that students “Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and societal levels.”
