Confronting Legacies of Structural Racism and Settler Colonialism to Understand COVID-19 Impacts on the Navajo Nation

Confronting Legacies of Structural Racism and Settler Colonialism to Understand COVID-19 Impacts on the Navajo Nation Marc A. EmersonPhD, MPH, and Teresa MontoyaPhD, MA Affiliation Marc A. Emerson is with the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Teresa Montoya is with the Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Both coauthors are Diné and members of the Navajo Nation. CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Marc A. Emerson, Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, 2103B McGavran-Greenberg Hall CB #7435, Chapel Hill, NC 27590 (e-mail: memerso@live.unc.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the "Reprints" link. CONTRIBUTORS The authors contributed equally to this editorial. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306398 Accepted: May 05, 2021 Published Online: August 31, 2021