Racism: The Ultimate Underlying Condition Webinar

Posted by Kathy Downing on June 8th, 2020 Posted in: Education and Outreach, Public Health

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The American Public Health Association is hosting a four-part webinar series to give an in-depth look at racism as a driving force of the social determinants of health and equity. The series will explore efforts to address systems, policies and practices designed to limit and shape opportunities for people of color. The presenters will highlight collective and individual actions we can take to advance racial equity and justice.

The first webinar in the series, Racism: the Ultimate Underlying Condition, will be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2-3:30 EDT.

Tuesday’s webinar will examine racism and its historic and present-day impact on health and well-being. Presenters will:

• identify the multiple levels on which racism operates;
• describe the physiological impacts of racism and discrimination on health; and
• explore the principles for and barriers to achieving health equity.

Introduction: APHA President-Elect José Ramón Fernández-Peña, MD, MPA, Director of Health Professions Advising, Northwestern University
Presenters: APHA Past President Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, 2019-2020 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University; Amani Allen, PhD, MPH, Executive Associate Dean, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Moderator: Tia Taylor Williams, Director, APHA Center for Public Health Policy and Center for School Health and Education

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This post was originally posted by Emily Hamstra, the Outreach Coordinator for the NNLM Pacific Northwest Region on June 4th.