Anti-Racism in Public Health Act of 2025

Key Points

• The bill creates a new National Center on Antiracism and Health inside the CDC, officially declaring racism a public health crisis and studying how it harms the physical and mental health of people across the country.
• The center would research how factors like housing, poverty, bias in medical systems, and other social determinants of health create worse outcomes for communities of color. It would also study how racism intersects with other forms of discrimination based on age, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability.
• The bill establishes at least three regional centers of excellence in racial and ethnic minority communities to develop new knowledge about how racism works in health care and to identify successful antiracist approaches.
• A separate program within the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control would study police violence as a public health issue, collecting data on deaths and injuries caused by law enforcement and researching alternatives to police response.
• The CDC would be required to make data publicly available, produce biennial reports on antiracist activities, and submit annual reports to Congress on police violence research findings, while also developing training for public health professionals on race and racism.