1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act of 2023 . 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) Antiracism The term antiracism is a collection of antiracist policies that lead to racial equity, and are substantiated by antiracist ideas. (2) Antiracist The term antiracist is any measure that produces or sustains racial equity between racial groups. 3. Public health research and investment in dismantling structural racism Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 243 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: 320C. National Center on Antiracism and Health (a) In general (1) National center There is established within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a center to be known as the National Center on Antiracism and Health (referred to in this section as the Center ). The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shall appoint a director to head the Center who has experience living in and working with racial and ethnic minority communities. The Center shall promote public health by— (A) declaring racism a public health crisis and naming racism as an historical and present threat to the physical and mental health and well-being of the United States and world; (B) aiming to develop new knowledge in the science and practice of antiracism, including by identifying the mechanisms by which racism operates in the provision of health care and in systems that impact health and well-being; (C) transferring that knowledge into practice, including by developing interventions that dismantle the mechanisms of racism and replace such mechanisms with equitable structures, policies, practices, norms, and values so that a healthy society can be realized