1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act of 2020 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) For centuries, structural racism, defined by the National Museum of African American History and Culture as an overarching system of racial bias across institutions and society, in the United States has negatively affected communities of color, especially Black, Latinx, Asian American, Pacific Islander, and American Indian and Alaska Native people, to expand and reinforce white supremacy. (2) Structural racism determines the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age and determine people’s access to quality housing, education, food, transportation, and political power, and other social determinants of health. (3) Structural racism serves as a major barrier to achieving health equity and eliminating racial and ethnic inequities in health outcomes that exist at alarming rates and are determined by a wider set of forces and systems. (4) Due to structural racism in the United States, people of color are more likely to suffer from chronic health conditions (such as heart disease, diabetes, asthma, hepatitis, and hypertension) and infectious diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, and COVID–19) compared to their white counterparts. (5) Due to structural racism in maternal health care in the United States, Black and American Indian and Alaska Native infants are more than twice as likely to die than white infants, Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women, and American Indian and Alaska Native women are 5 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. This trend persists even when adjusting for income and education. (6) Due to structural racism in the United States, Non-Hispanic Black women have the highest rates for 22 of 25 severe morbidity indicators used by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (7) Due to structural racism in the United States, people of color comprise a