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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2884 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for public health research 
and investment into understanding and eliminating structural racism 
and police violence. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 10, 2025 
Ms. PRESSLEY (for herself, Mrs. BEATTY, Ms. BROWN, Mr. CARSON, Mrs. 
CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Mr. EVANS of Pennsylvania, Mr. JOHNSON of 
Georgia, Ms. MCCLELLAN, Mr. NADLER, Ms. NORTON, Ms. OCASIO-COR-
TEZ, Ms. OMAR, Mr. POCAN, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. SE-
WELL, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Ms. STANSBURY, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. 
THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. TORRES of New York, Ms. WASSERMAN 
SCHULTZ, and Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for 
public health research and investment into understanding 
and eliminating structural racism and police violence. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Anti-Racism in Public 
Health Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ANTIRACISM.—The term ‘‘antiracism’’ is a 
collection of antiracist policies that lead to racial eq-
uity, and are substantiated by antiracist ideas. 
(2) ANTIRACIST.—The term ‘‘antiracist’’ is any 
measure that produces or sustains racial equity be-
tween racial groups. 
SEC. 3. PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH AND INVESTMENT IN 
DISMANTLING STRUCTURAL RACISM. 
Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 243 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘SEC. 320C. NATIONAL CENTER ON ANTIRACISM AND 
HEALTH. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(1) NATIONAL CENTER.—There is established 
within the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion a center to be known as the ‘National Center 
on Antiracism and Health’ (referred to in this sec-
tion as the ‘Center’). The Director of the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention shall appoint a di-
rector to head the Center who has experience living 
in and working with racial and ethnic minority com-
munities. The Center shall promote public health 
by— 
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‘‘(A) declaring racism a public health crisis 
and naming racism as an historical and present 
threat to the physical and mental health and 
well-being of the United States and world; 
‘‘(B) aiming to develop new knowledge in 
the science and practice of antiracism, including 
by identifying the mechanisms by which racism 
operates in the provision of health care and in 
systems that impact health and well-being; 
‘‘(C) transferring that knowledge into 
practice, including by developing interventions 
that dismantle the mechanisms of racism and 
replace such mechanisms with equitable struc-
tures, policies, practices, norms, and values so 
that a healthy society can be realized; and 
‘‘(D) contributing to a national and global 
conversation regarding the impacts of racism on 
the health and well-being of the United States 
and world. 
‘‘(2) GENERAL DUTIES.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Center, shall undertake activities to 
carry out the mission of the Center as described in 
paragraph (1), such as the following: 
‘‘(A) Conduct research into, collect, ana-
lyze and make publicly available data on, and 
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provide leadership and coordination for the 
science and practice of antiracism, the public 
health impacts of structural racism, and the ef-
fectiveness of intervention strategies to address 
these impacts. Topics of research and data col-
lection under this subparagraph may include 
identifying and understanding— 
‘‘(i) policies and practices that have a 
disparate impact on the health and well- 
being of communities of color; 
‘‘(ii) the public health impacts of im-
plicit racial bias, White supremacy, weath-
ering, 
xenophobia, 
discrimination, 
and 
prejudice; 
‘‘(iii) the social determinants of health 
resulting from structural racism, including 
poverty, housing, employment, political 
participation, and environmental factors; 
and 
‘‘(iv) the intersection of racism and 
other systems of oppression, including as 
related to age, sexual orientation, gender 
identity, and disability status. 
‘‘(B) Award noncompetitive grants and co-
operative agreements to eligible public and non-
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profit private entities, including State, local, 
territorial, and Tribal health agencies and orga-
nizations, for the research and collection, anal-
ysis, and reporting of data on the topics de-
scribed in subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(C) Establish, through grants or coopera-
tive agreements, at least 3 regional centers of 
excellence, located in racial and ethnic minority 
communities, in antiracism for the purpose of 
developing new knowledge in the science and 
practice of antiracism in health by researching, 
understanding, and identifying the mechanisms 
by which racism operates in the health space, 
racial and ethnic inequities in health care ac-
cess and outcomes, the history of successful 
antiracist movements in health, and other 
antiracist public health work. 
‘‘(D) Establish a clearinghouse within the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 
the collection and storage of data generated 
under the programs implemented under this 
section for which there is not an otherwise ex-
isting surveillance system at the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention. Such data 
shall— 
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‘‘(i) 
be 
comprehensive 
and 
disaggregated, to the extent practicable, by 
including racial, ethnic, primary language, 
sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, 
age, socioeconomic status, and disability 
disparities; 
‘‘(ii) be made publicly available; 
‘‘(iii) protect the privacy of individuals 
whose information is included in such data; 
and 
‘‘(iv) comply with privacy protections 
under the regulations promulgated under 
section 264(c) of the Health Insurance 
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. 
‘‘(E) Provide information and education to 
the public on the public health impacts of struc-
tural racism and on antiracist public health 
interventions. 
‘‘(F) Consult with other Centers and Na-
tional Institutes within the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, including the Office of 
Minority Health and Health Equity and the 
Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial 
Support, to ensure that scientific and pro-
grammatic activities initiated by the agency 
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consider structural racism in their designs, 
conceptualizations, and executions, which shall 
include— 
‘‘(i) putting measures of racism in 
population-based surveys; 
‘‘(ii) establishing a Federal Advisory 
Committee on racism and health for the 
Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion; 
‘‘(iii) developing training programs, 
curricula, and seminars for the purposes of 
training public health professionals and re-
searchers around issues of race, racism, 
and antiracism; 
‘‘(iv) providing standards and best 
practices for programming and grant re-
cipient compliance with Federal data col-
lection standards, including section 4302 
of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act; and 
‘‘(v) establishing leadership and stake-
holder councils with experts and leaders in 
racism and public health disparities. 
‘‘(G) Coordinate with the Indian Health 
Service and with the Centers for Disease Con-
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trol and Prevention’s Tribal Advisory Com-
mittee to ensure meaningful Tribal consulta-
tion, the gathering of information from Tribal 
authorities, and respect for Tribal data sov-
ereignty. 
‘‘(H) Engage in government to government 
consultation with Indian Tribes and Tribal or-
ganizations. 
‘‘(I) At least every 2 years, produce and 
publicly post on the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention’s website a report on antiracist 
activities completed by the Center, which may 
include newly identified antiracist public health 
practices. 
‘‘(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be nec-
essary to carry out this section.’’. 
SEC. 4. PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH AND INVESTMENT IN 
POLICE VIOLENCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall establish within the National Center 
for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention (referred to in this section 
as the ‘‘Center’’) a law enforcement violence prevention 
program. 
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(b) GENERAL DUTIES.—In implementing the pro-
gram under subsection (a), the Center shall conduct re-
search into, and provide leadership and coordination for— 
(1) the understanding and promotion of knowl-
edge about the public health impacts of uses of force 
by law enforcement, including police brutality and 
violence; 
(2) developing public health interventions and 
perspectives for eliminating deaths, injury, trauma, 
and negative mental health effects from police pres-
ence and interactions, including police brutality and 
violence; and 
(3) ensuring comprehensive data collection, 
analysis, and reporting regarding police violence and 
misconduct in consultation with the Department of 
Justice and independent researchers. 
(c) FUNCTIONS.—Under the program under sub-
section (a), the Center shall— 
(1) summarize and enhance the knowledge of 
the distribution, status, and characteristics of law 
enforcement-related death, trauma, and injury; 
(2) conduct research and prepare, with the as-
sistance of State public health departments— 
(A) statistics on law enforcement-related 
death, injury, and brutality; 
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(B) studies of the factors, including legal, 
socioeconomic, discrimination, and other factors 
that correlate with or influence police brutality; 
(C) public information about uses of force 
by law enforcement, including police brutality 
and violence, for the practical use of the public 
health community, including publications that 
synthesize information relevant to the national 
goal of understanding police violence and meth-
ods for its control; 
(D) information to identify socioeconomic 
groups, communities, and geographic areas in 
need of study, and a strategic plan for research 
necessary to comprehend the extent and nature 
of police uses of force by law enforcement, in-
cluding police brutality and violence, and deter-
mine what options exist to reduce or eradicate 
death and injury that result; and 
(E) best practices in police violence preven-
tion in other countries; 
(3) award grants, contracts, and cooperative 
agreements to provide for the conduct of epidemio-
logic research on uses of force by law enforcement, 
including police brutality and violence, by Federal, 
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State, local, and private agencies, institutions, orga-
nizations, and individuals; 
(4) award grants, contracts, and cooperative 
agreements to community groups, independent re-
search organizations, academic institutions, and 
other entities to support, execute, or conduct re-
search on interventions to reduce or eliminate uses 
of force by law enforcement, including police bru-
tality and violence; 
(5) coordinate with the Department of Justice, 
and other Federal, State, and local agencies on the 
standardization of data collection, storage, and re-
trieval necessary to collect, evaluate, analyze, and 
disseminate information about the extent and nature 
of uses of force by law enforcement, including police 
brutality and violence, as well as options for the 
eradication of such practices; 
(6) submit an annual report to Congress on re-
search findings with recommendations to improve 
data collection and standardization and to disrupt 
processes in policing that preserve and reinforce rac-
ism and racial disparities in public health; 
(7) conduct primary research and explore uses 
of force by law enforcement, including police bru-
tality and violence, and options for its control; and 
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(8) study alternatives to law enforcement re-
sponse as a method of reducing police violence. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated, such sums as may be nec-
essary to carry out this section. 
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