NYC’s first chief equity officer in public health steps down

Dr. Torian Easterling is departing his post as the city health department's first chief equity officer.New York City’s first-ever chief equity officer Dr. Torian Easterling announced this week that he is stepping down.

The transcript of their discussion below was aired Friday on WNYC’s All Things Considered and has been lightly edited for clarity: It’s very hard to sort of put a nickel down and say, ‘this rooted out structural racism.’ But I think one thing that was really important about the New York City Board of Health’s resolution, declaring racism as a public health crisis, is signaling that this is still an important issue.

We know these inequities are baked in our everyday ways of life. I mean, this is an original sin of this country. And so it is not going to be erased through one pandemic, or one outbreak, or with one resolution.

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