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SHLI Lunch & Learn Webinar Series Session 2: Civic Engagement and Climate Change Policies October 27. 2021 11AM - 1:00PM EST   The Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) at Morehouse School of Medicine and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have partnered to provide a bi-monthly lunch and learn series for legislators, policymakers, institutional leaders, and community advocates. This series will focus on addressing civic engagement, climate change policies, community mobilization, water quality, carbon emissions, energy and power conservation, and climate change effects on vulnerable communities through a policy and health equity lens.     Registration is…

  Please note the deadline has been extended to October 6 to submit your intent!  LEARN ABOUT THIS BOOK

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Please SIGN ON and help us share this sign-on letter FAR AND WIDE before the deadline, this Friday (9/17) at 10am ET/9am CT/8am MT/7am PT.  This letter will go to senators asking that they support the House Energy and Commerce Committee policy to provide a permanent & comprehensive fix to America’s coverage gap. This gap is currently leaving over 2 million uninsured Americans living under the poverty line, predominantly from communities of color, without any access to healthcare coverage.   Because this is the only health care policy in the Build Back Better Act that directs resources specifically to low-income Americans, 60% of whom are people of color,…

             The Inaugural Garth N. Graham Distinguished Lectureship Award   Spotlighting trail blazers that are leading the creation and advancement of health equity. Registration is free and participants can sign up in advance by visiting: https://bit.ly/3hDqgPj   Atlanta, GA – September 16, 2021— Today, the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine (SHLI), The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC), and YouTube announced the Inaugural Garth N. Graham Distinguished Lectureship Award.    “During his tenure at HHS, Dr. Garth N. Graham yielded incredible…