This course offers a deep dive into the complex relationships between stigma, identities, and infectious diseases, exploring how language, and societal attitudes have shifted through time. You’ll learn to recognize the impact of stigma not only on public health but also on individual practices, as people may avoid disclosure when they don?t feel accepted. Through an applied lens, this course will help you identify biases, challenge harmful messaging, and improve public health campaigns by fostering inclusivity.

At the end of the recording, participants will be able to:
– Define homelessness and housing insecurity.
– Identify the drivers of homelessness and how they intersect with public policy and social issues.
– Discuss the need to reframe homelessness as a systems problem and the need for quantitative and qualitative data to move towards an equity-built system.
– Address the health-related impacts of the criminalization of homelessness.
– Discuss the structural issues we must address to end homelessness and achieve the overall goal for everyone to live with dignity and health.