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The “Voting, Health Policy, and Social Justice: The Political Determinants of Health” webinar is cosponsored by the three offices of diversity and inclusion of Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The program focus incorporates concepts of both the social and political determinants of health with Daniel E. Dawes, JD, Director, Satcher Health Leadership Institute as keynote speaker and David Williams, PhD, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health moderating the panel. The panel discussion will link to areas of oral health, public health,…

About this Event   Date And Time Thu, October 1, 2020 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pp-live-lunch-health-equity-panel-with-daniel-dawes-and-david-satcher-tickets-122583816495 Join Daniel E. Dawes and Dr. David Satcher for a discussion about health equity with Erwin J. Tan, MD, the Director of Thought Leadership Health at AARP. As part of AARP’s ongoing commitment to create a future that embraces equity and innovation across the lifespan, the first 200 people to register for this event will receive one free book: Daniel Dawes' "The Political Determinants of Health" or Dr. Satcher's "My Quest for Health Equity." (selected upon event…

In 1966, Dr Martin Luther King Jr stated, “of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane”. These words remain ever true and relevant in our current climate of health care. The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially affected health care on a global scale, and has magnified the inequities in access to health care that existed before. This pandemic has highlighted the equity gap in outcomes for marginalised communities, specifically the Black community, as starkly shown by the disparate morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 in individuals from these communities compared with the majority white population. 1 Furthermore, obesity and its…

Why Is COVID-19 Killing So Many Black Americans? The answer, according to researchers, is racism. But the Black community is fighting back. By Andrea Collier | June 30, 2020 Print Bookmark COVID-19 threatens the health of Americans in a way that hasn’t happened since the Spanish Flu in 1919. At this writing, it has killed half a million people around the world—a quarter of whom were Americans. The virus brought the economy to its knees, with unemployment rates and business closings that look more like the Great Depression than a mere downturn. But the suffering inflicted by COVID-19 is not evenly distributed. Black folks (and Latinos) are more likely to contract COVID-19, less…

HHS Announces Partnership with Morehouse School of Medicine to Fight COVID-19 in Racial and Ethnic Minority and Vulnerable Communities $40 Million Initiative Will Help Communities Hardest Hit by the Pandemic The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) announced the selection of the Morehouse School of Medicine as the awardee for a new $40 million initiative to fight COVID-19 in racial and ethnic minority, rural and socially vulnerable communities. The Morehouse School of Medicine will enter into a cooperative agreement with OMH to lead the initiative to coordinate a strategic network of national, state, territorial, tribal and local organizations to…