Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Academic Public Health: 20-Year Update
Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Academic Public Health: 20-Year Update
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DOI:
10.1177/0033354919887747
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发表时间:
2019-11-20
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Healton, Cheryl G.
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作者:
Goodman, Melody S.;Plepys, Christine M.;Healton, Cheryl G.
Objective: This study is a follow-up to an examination of the racial/ethnic composition of public health students (1996) and faculty (1997) at schools of public health that was conducted 20 years ago. We examined data on the race/ethnicity of students, graduates, and faculty among Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH)-member institutions during 2016-2017 and how these data have changed in the past 20 years. Methods: We obtained data on the race/ethnicity of students (in 1996 and 2016), graduates (in 1996 and 2016), and faculty (in 1997 and 2017) at ASPPH-member institutions from the ASPPH Data Center. We tabulated frequencies, percentages, and 20-year percentage-point changes by race/ethnicity. We examined data for all current ASPPH-member institutions and for comparable subcohorts of 1996 and 1997 member institutions that are current ASPPH members. Results: In graduate student enrollment, the 20-year increase in each nonwhite racial/ethnic subgroup was