A Research Agenda for Racial Equity: Applications of the Ferguson Commission Report to Public Health.

HEALTH & race; PUBLIC health research; BROWN, Michael, 1996-2014; EQUALITY; UNITED States governmental investigations; NIXON, Jay, 1956-; RACE & society; TWENTY-first century; SOCIAL history; LEGAL procedure; RACISM; CIVIL rights; POLICE psychology; RACE relations; SOCIAL change; SOCIAL justice; PSYCHOLOGY of Black people; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; MINORITY stress; ETHICS

FERGUSON (Mo.); UNITED States

The Ferguson Commission was an independent body of 16 commissioners in operation from November 2014 to December 2015 and appointed by Missouri governor Jay Nixon to examine the root causes underlying the death of Michael Brown Jr. Its report, "Forward Through Ferguson: A Path Toward Racial Equity," raises many issues on racial equity that public health is well suited to address, such as trends in police use of force, the health implications of the school-based discipline gap, and the health benefits of a coordinated housing strategy. Public health can also learn from the principles the commission adopted, including being unflinching in the questions asked and conclusions drawn, applying a racial equity lens to public health work, and moving beyond programmatic solutions to policy solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]