; (6) Asian Americans are the only racial group in the United States who experience cancer as the leading cause of death; (7) Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are 2.5-times more likely to die from diabetes than non-Hispanic White women; (8) Native Hawaiians suffer from coronary heart disease, stroke, heart failure, cancer, and diabetes at a 3 times greater rate than other ethnic populations in Hawaii, and become afflicted with those diseases a decade earlier in their lives compared with other ethnic populations; and (9) during the COVID–19 pandemic, Black, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Native American communities experienced disproportionately high rates of COVID–19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality compared to the White population of the United States; Whereas inequities in health outcomes are exacerbated for people of color who are LGBTQIA+; Whereas inequities in health outcomes are exacerbated for people of color who have disabilities; Whereas, historically, explanations for health inequities have focused on false genetic science, such as eugenics; Whereas, historically, explanations for health inequities have focused on incomplete social scientific analyses that narrowly focus on individual behavior to highlight ostensible deficiencies within racial and ethnic minority groups; Whereas modern public health officials recognize the broader social context in which health inequities emerge and acknowledge the impact of historical and contemporary racism on health; Whereas racism is recognized in modern public health discourse as 1 of many social determinants of health, which— (1) are a broad range of nonmedical factors that can enhance or hinder quality of life and influence health outcomes; (2) are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and include the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life