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The article argues that health equity requires working toward antiracist local public health departments (LHD). It explains the role of LHDs in antiracist capacity building to earn public trust where there is race discrimination in the health infrastructure. It proposes the disruption of structural racism and racial health inequities by engaging LHDs in advocacy efforts, cross-sector collaborations and community-based partnerships, and providing services in racially marginalized communities.

In this nascent age of massive online education, it is important to recognize that the goals and successes of a liberal arts education have been to provide an intellectual array of ideas that build critical thinking skills and to engage a new generation of students with society's great challenges and vast opportunities. Nowhere are these opportunities richer than in the basic research questions being posed every day at a research university. In this paper, we argue that the goals of a liberal arts education and undergraduate research are remarkably similar and that by incorporating an undergraduate research focus with a liberal arts approach in the classroom, instructors can more effectively achieve the goals of both. We present the example of ORDER (On Recent Discoveries by Emory Researchers), a series of multidisciplinary, team-taught seminar courses for freshmen and seniors. We argue that ORDER's unique structure provides students with effective opportunities to achieve the core goals of a liberal arts education and a research education, namely to enhance the ability to think critically and draw connections, engage in research as a process, pursue authentic investigation of real-world problems, develop interdisciplinary and collaborative skills, and present ideas creatively.