Sandro Galea, the dean of and professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health, made the remarks in a statement titled “On Compassion,” featured on the School of Public Health vertical. “The effects of disease on the health of populations, of war and natural disasters, of the challenge of institutionalized racism and daily bigotry — we evaluate the causes and consequences of these problems as we work to mitigate them,” Galea said, citing previous posts that he authored on the site. “Evidence suggests that racism affects the health of populations in [a] number of ways,” Galea told The Daily Caller News Foundation.