Whereas a public health crisis is an issue— (1) that affects many people, is a threat to the public, and is ongoing; (2) that is unfairly distributed among different populations and disproportionately impacts health outcomes, access to health care, and life expectancy; (3) the effects of which could be reduced by preventive measures; and (4) for which those preventive measures are not yet in place; Whereas public health experts agree that significant racial inequities exist in the prevalence, severity, and mortality rates of various health conditions in the United States; Whereas examples of those inequities include— (1) life expectancies for Black and Native American people in the United States are significantly lower than those of White people in the United States; (2) Black and Native American women are 2 to 4 times more likely than White women to suffer severe maternal morbidity or die of pregnancy-related complications; (3) Black and Native American infants are 2 to 3 times more likely to die than White infants; (4) the Black infant mortality rate in the United States is higher than the infant mortality rates recorded in 27 of the 36 democratic countries with market-based economies that are members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development; (5) Hispanic women are 40 percent more likely to be diagnosed with and 30 percent more likely to die from cervical cancer compared to non-Hispanic White women; (6) Asian Americans face health disparities in cancer and chronic diseases, and are the only population in the United States for which cancer is the leading cause of death; (7) Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders suffer from a number of poor health outcomes such as high rates of overweight status, obesity, hypertension, and asthma and cancer mortality