Disability Justice: Public Health for Collective Liberation

Disability Justice is not an add-on to equity work —it is essential to building public health systems that are accessible, accountable and life-affirming for everyone.

Disability Justice: Public Health for Collective Liberation is a four-part professional development webinar series designed for public health and health care professionals committed to equity, accessibility and systems change. Hosted by the American Public Health Association (APHA) Center for Public Health Policy, this series centers the leadership, lived experience and expertise of disabled people — particularly disabled people of color — and moves beyond compliance toward collective care, accountability and liberation.

Public health often approaches disability through narrow, medicalized, or deficit-based frameworks. This series intentionally shifts the lens. Participants will explore Disability Justice as an intersectional, anti-racist and community-led framework that addresses ableism alongside racism, poverty, immigration status, gender oppression, audism and other systems shaping health inequities.