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Pharmacists play key roles in public health activities. The Healthy People initiative is a future-oriented approach to promote health and prevent disease, and serves as a framework for priority areas of intervention. The latest iteration, Healthy People 2030, was released in August 2020. Healthy People 2030 contains 355 specific objectives and raises awareness about gaps between actual and optimal health status. Pharmacists and student pharmacists can directly impact the majority of the objectives to improve the nation's health. Pharmacy educators should utilize resources including the Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework to ensure they are adequately preparing their students to affect clinical prevention and population health.

Objectives. The objectives of this paper are to summarize the inclusion of health equity and anti-racism education in published literature and use it to identify current gaps across the pharmacy curriculum, define the key health equity and anti-racism concepts that are suggested to be included across the pharmacy curriculum, and recommend a framework with steps to integrate health equity and anti-racism education across the pharmacy curriculum. Findings. Other professions such as social work, nursing, and medicine have taken steps to address social injustice by integrating anti-racism into their curriculum. The National Association of Social Worker (NASW) advocates for “social justice, and social change with and on behalf of clients”, and included racism and health equity in its mission to eradicate “discrimination, oppression, poverty, and other forms of social injustice.” The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) curricular standards for baccalaureate nursing education provided four key changes for immediate change in the curriculum to overcome structural, individual, and ideological racism (SIIR). In October 2020, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) released a four-pillar framework to address racism. Summary. The pharmacy profession must follow suit in the efforts to eradicate social injustices by incorporating into its curriculum topics that would result in the graduation of culturally and linguistically sensitive, and structurally competent pharmacists. This five-phased framework, Rx-HEART (Pharmacy Health Equity Anti-Racism Training) aims to provide guidance to the pharmacy academy on how to accomplish the set objectives of this paper and of the themed issue on social injustice.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The 2020 Special Committee on Substance Use and Pharmacy Education was charged to update the work of the 2010 Special Committee on Substance Abuse and Pharmacy Education Report (SAPER) specifically with recommendations on core curricular content and delivery processes on substance misuse and substance use disorder (SUD). This report provides information on the committee’s process to address the charges, background information and resources pertaining to the charges, and rationale for SUD being a critical topic for curriculum at colleges and schools of pharmacy. This committee offers several recommendations to the Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) pertaining to the committee charges.

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