The HEART (Health Equity via Anti-Racist Teaching) online training is a free, five-module course focused on the process of actively building anti-racist teaching approaches in public health.

It is designed for public health teachers, educators, leaders, faculty, trainers and managers who are responsible for training of any kind, and may also be useful for teachers of all kinds, especially those in health-related fields.

The course begins with foundational understandings of racism, and anti-racism, and how they relate to public health and teaching. It then focuses on building an anti-racist mindset for teaching within public health and allied fields. A key goal of the training is to narrow the space between claiming to value anti-racism and putting it into practice in the classroom.

Course participants are invited to learn how to articulate their personal commitment to implementing anti-racist teaching practices, assess current teaching practices with an anti-racist lens, and apply the principles of anti-racist pedagogy to teaching practices, such as classroom management, classroom content and beyond the classroom.

The online training is highly engaging and includes about 20 hours of total content, including approximately 10 hours of original recorded video with lectures and interviews with anti-racist teaching experts, animations of case studies, recommended readings and application activities.

This resource is both original and highly scalable to help spread anti-racist teaching practices across the field of public health and allied health sciences.

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Melissa Creary, Assistant professor of health management and policy, and of global public health

Paul Fleming, Associate professor of health behavior and health education

Whitney Peoples, Director of diversity, equity and inclusion, School of Public Health