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.

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

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

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

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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