The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will spend nearly $800,000 taxpayer dollars in an effort to curtail the effects of “structural racism” on chronic kidney disease by applying Critical Race Theory to the field of health.

The whopping sum of $790,955 will be allocated to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, to support the institution’s attempt to “mitigate the effects of structural racism on chronic kidney disease disparities among African Americans.”

The researchers claim that the current treatment regimen for chronic kidney disease (CDK) “fails to attend to the role of structural racism,” citing “racial disparities.”

The grant description goes on to explain that researchers will use “public health critical race practice, a public health framework that addresses change through an anti-racism lens.” Public health critical race praxis, which has been referenced in academic articles, focuses on “race consciousness,” the “primacy of racialization,” “race as a social construct,” and the “ordinariness of racism.”