Deadline 2/19/21 - CHET Undergraduate Essay Competition

Award: First Place -      $250

              Second Place - $100

Overview

CHET states that racism is a public health threat that undermines health equity, and we aim to understand and combat centuries of oppression through transformational training and research. As we penned in a recent statement, although current events have revealed to some and reminded others of how systemic racism operates in the United States, the work of creating an anti-racist society is a marathon, not a sprint. Solutions require meaningful and tangible actions and strategies informed by voices, experiences, scholarship, activism, and leadership of those who experience racism and allies and accomplices committed to re-imagining a just society.

Prompt

In an effort to implement programming focused on health equity and anti-racism, CHET invites students to reflect on the following quote and submit a thoughtful essay. Responses should focus on the intersection of health and justice and illustrate the importance of health equity – the fair and just opportunity for everyone to live their healthiest life possible.

“Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes” – bell hooks

Submissions are due February 19, 2021

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