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  • Systemic racism and anti-Blackness have led to disproportionate impacts on Black communities, exacerbated by police brutality and the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Inequities in mortality rates for Black individuals highlight historical and ongoing disparate outcomes within societal institutions.
  • Understanding systemic racism requires examining its embeddedness across socio-ecological levels.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine systemic racism, including anti-Blackness, through a behavioral-community lens.
  • To identify intervention points across ecological levels for behavior change.
  • To call upon the behavioral community to address systemic racism within their systems of influence.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing the Social-Ecological Model (SEM) to analyze environmental conditions that perpetuate systemic racism.
  • Applying a behavioral-community approach to identify factors contributing to racism.
  • Examining behavior change strategies supported by behaviorists across socio-ecological levels.

Main Results:

  • The Social-Ecological Model provides a framework for understanding how racism is embedded in various systems.
  • A behavioral-community approach identifies specific intervention points for addressing racism.
  • Behavior science principles can be applied to understand and modify behaviors that sustain systemic racism.

Conclusions:

  • Behaviorists have a crucial role in addressing systemic racism and promoting equity.
  • Collaborative action tools are provided to support behaviorists in moving from allyship to active anti-racism.
  • Addressing systemic racism requires a multi-level, behavior-change-focused approach within the behavioral community.