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REGISTER FOR SESSION 2: Bridging the Gaps Roundtable Series Behavioral Health Equity and Incarceration: Please join the Kennedy-Satcher Center for Mental Health Equity’s second installment in this five-part series, on February 15th 11:00 – 12:30 EST. Registration is free and open to the public!   REGISTER HERE TODAY! https://kennedysatcher.org/event/criminal-justice-and-equity-webinar-series-session-2-behavioral-health-equity-and-incarceration/  

January 2022 Champion! Shaneeta Johnson, MD DR. SHANEETA JOHNSON     "From patients in Atlanta to the devastation of a hurricane in the Bahamas, Dr. Shaneeta Johnson has seen the effects of the climate crisis on health. She wants people to know what she has learned, and to act. Dr. Johnson is a clinical professor at Morehouse University in Atlanta, specializing in minimally invasive and bariatric surgery, but that’s hardly all she does, especially about climate change. Her climate activities include work with the National Academy of Medicine, The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, and speaking engagements in, among other places, Washington, Georgia,  and her…

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Data Updates COVID -19 Hospitalization and Death data for Missouri and Wyoming now available! Explore the data now:  https://healthequitytracker.org/exploredata?dt1=deaths 4(4%)        

 “Criminal Justice and Equity: Bridging the Gaps”  January 2022 – May 2022  The Kennedy-Satcher Center for Mental Health Equity (KSCMHE), in partnership with the Wellpath Cares Foundation, will host a series of virtual roundtables to address the landscape of inequities that affect justice-involved individuals. The invited panelists will represent a diverse, inclusive, and unique set of voices in the field, to speak on a myriad of issues that influence outcomes for individuals affected by the criminal justice system. KSCMHE will outreach experts, leaders, and people with lived experience to accurately depict the state of criminal justice and equity in…