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UM-Flint professor, students working with 'Beyond Rhetoric' project to fight racism in Genesee County

Lisa Lapeyrouse, associate professor in the Department of Public Health and Health Sciences, is working to address racism in Genesee County.

After Genesee County became one the first communities in the country to adopt a resolution declaring racism a public health crisis in June 2020, public health researchers, including University of Michigan-Flint associate professor Lisa Lapeyrouse and several UM-Flint students, set out to ensure that the resolution was viewed through a public health lens and translated[…]