This series of panels will examine how race and racial health disparities are studied in epidemiology. The first panel in our series will explore the history of census data, how data on race are collected and studied, and the implications of how this data are used in population health science.

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
– Describe how use of race correction in measurement tools may result in inappropriate or invalid interpretation
– Discuss opportunities for addressing implicit bias in using epidemiologic data
– Describe a community intervention to improve medication usage identified by pharmaco-epidemiologic studies
– Explain the difference in the definitions of race based on biology and social constructs and how they relate to disease risk
– Discuss how the concept of ?intersectionality? helps understand the effects of racism and oppression on individual, interpersonal, institutional, and structural levels