Public Health Liberation – An Emerging Transdiscipline to Elucidate and Transform the Public Health Economy

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Environmental Health Workforce: Mapping the Literature and Moving Toward Liberation

“…Furthermore, though there are rare exceptions, 12 most DEI initiatives tend to omit the more progressive principles of inclusivity and liberation in their formulation. Inclusivity is defined as "the fact or quality of being inclusive, especially the practice or policy of not excluding any person on the grounds of race, gender, religion, age, disability, etc."…”

“…Furthermore, though there are rare exceptions, 12 most DEI initiatives tend to omit the more progressive principles of inclusivity and liberation in their formulation. Inclusivity is defined as “the fact or quality of being inclusive, especially the practice or policy of not excluding any person on the grounds of race, gender, religion, age, disability, etc.” 13 Liberation is defined as “the action of freeing a region or its people from an oppressor or enemy force; freedom from restrictive or discriminatory social conventions and attitudes.” 14 These principles indicate that DEI must be a systematic practice or policy and sustained until the affected peoples served by EH professionals are no longer oppressed, respectively, thus setting a higher bar for the EH field that better aligns with the public health profession’s centering on health equity and renewed mission to “protect and promote the health of all people in all communities.” 15…”