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Throughout October, Health Affairs will host a full slate of virtual
events to highlight the contents of our special thematic issue, Tackling
Structural Racism In Health. Â
Included are a Health Affairs Issue Briefing, a Journal Club meeting,
and a Professional Development session, all of which are open to public.
Read the details below to join us in October!
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Understanding and addressing the impact of structural racism on health
is essential to building health equity.
The October 2023 issue of Health Affairs, "Tackling Structural Racism In
Health," builds on the groundbreaking work contained in our February
2022 theme issue, "Racism & Health."
It deepens and extends the scholarship on the relationship between
structural racism, health, and health care with new research and
perspectives on the politics of racism and how it is ingrained in health
research and society.
You are invited to join us on Tuesday, October 3, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00
p.m. (Eastern) for a virtual forum
at which panels of distinguished authors and experts will present their
work and engage in discussions on topics including "Politics and the
Legacy of Racism," "Use Of Race And Ethnicity Data," "Documenting
Racism," and "Responses to Racism."
Featured speakers are:
Denis Agniel, Statistician, RAND Corporation
Andrew Anderson, Assistant Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Johns Hopkins University
Joseph Betancourt, President, The Commonwealth Fund
Jessica Bylander, Senior Editor, Health Affairs
Michael Paul Cary, Elizabeth C. Clipp Term Chair of Nursing, School of
Nursing, Duke University
Arielle Deutsch, Research Scientist, Avera Health
Chanelle M. Diaz, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Columbia
University Irving Medical Center
Zachary Dyer, MD Candidate, Chan Medical School, University of
Massachusetts
Shekinah Antoinette Fashaw-Walters, Assistant Professor, Division of
Health Policy & Management, University of Minnesota
Sandro Galea, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University
School of Public Health
Gilbert Gee, Professor and Chair, Department of Community Health
Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA, and Health Affairs
Issue Adviser
Simon Haeder, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Texas A&M
University
Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Associate Dean of Research and Professor of
Medicine, Stanford University
Chidinma Adanna Ibe, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Simbo Ige, Managing Director, Programs, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Jaquelyn L. Jahn, Assistant Professor, Dornsife School of Public Health,
Drexel University
Elaine Khoong, Assistant Professor, University of California San
Francisco; UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco
General Hospital; and Health Affairs HEFT Fellow
Jamila Michener, Senior Associate Dean for Public Engagement, Brooks
School of Public Policy, Cornell University
Jennifer Miles, Postdoctoral Associate, Institute of Health, Health Care
Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University
Ryan Petteway, Associate Professor, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health
Jason Semprini, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Iowa
Milkie Vu, Assistant Professor in Preventive Medicine, Northwestern
University
Vabren Watts, Director of Equity, Health Affairs
Joel S. Weissman, Deputy Director/Chief Scientific Officer, Center for
Surgery and Public Health, Massachusetts General Hospital; and Associate
Professor of Medicine, Institute of Health Policy, Massachusetts General
Hospital
Ruqaiijah Yearby, Kara J. Trott Professor in Health Law, Moritz College
of Law, Ohio State University, and Health Affairs Issue Adviser
Date: Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Eastern
View Full Agenda and Register here!
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The centerpiece of the Health Affairs Insider Journal Club meeting in
October is, "Voices, Images, And Experiences Of Community Health
Workers: Advancing Antiracist Policy And Practice
."
Community health workers (CHWs) share common attributes with, and/or
have a nuanced understanding of, the communities they serve.So say the
authors of this paper highlighting their community-engaged
study-Amplifying the Lived Experiences of Community Health Workers
(ALEC)- to elevate the voices and experiences of CHWs.
Using photovoice methodology, they reveal how CHWs' lived experiences
influence their professional activities, and examine policies and
practices that take into account the social conditions shaping CHWs'
lives to expand equity and improve health outcomes.
On October 12, please join author Chidinma Adanna Ibe, Assistant
Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, for a detailed discussion of the
paper's data, methods, and policy conclusions. Health Affairs Senior
Editor Jessica Bylander will host.
Date: Thursday, October 12, 2023
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Eastern
Register
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The October 2023 issue of Health Affairs, "Tackling Structural Racism in
Health" includes two compelling "Narrative Matters" essays telling the
personal stories of women who have encountered structural racism in
their everyday lives.
On Tuesday, October 24, please join Health Affairs Senior Editor Jessica
Bylander for an online forum on "Writing About Racism In Health Care
,"
featuring Narrative Matters authors sharing their stories, their
processes for composing the essays, and how they came to the policy
conclusions put forth in the work.
Presenters will include Maranda C. Ward, an assistant professor and
director of equity in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership
at George Washington University. She is the author of, "Changing How The
Health Care Workforce Sees Patients Like Me." She will be joined by
Alexis Grant-Panting, a graduate research and teaching assistant at
Texas Woman's University, the author of "A Black Woman's Pandemic
Birth Experience."
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Eastern
Register
Health Affairs thanks Ruqaiijah Yearby of Ohio State University and
Gilbert Gee of UCLA, who served as theme issue advisers.
We thank The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The California Wellness
Foundation, and The Episcopal Health Foundation for their financial
support of this issue.
You might also be interested in this related upcoming event
hosted by the UPenn Leonard David Institute of Health Economics.
If you have accessibility or support requirements in order to
participate fully in any of these events, please contact
[email protected] to ensure
that we can arrange reasonable accommodations.
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