Community-led initiatives address needs that public health and health care systems have failed to adequately provide to historically and systematically excluded communities. This webinar will spur a robust dialogue about how community members can leverage existing assets to address pertinent issues, what funders should know about community-led initiatives, and strategies for building effective partnerships that tangibly advance equity in public health.
Heber Brown III, Executive Director, Black Church Food Security Network
Kristen Brown, Senior Research Associate, Health Policy Center, Urban Institute
Erin Miles Cloud, Senior Attorney, Civil Rights Corps
Kari Thatcher, Co-chair, Prevention Specialist, Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative
Maria Thomas, Beyond Do No Harm Fellow, Interrupting Criminalization
Christina Yongue, AP Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Kimá Joy Taylor, Nonresident Fellow, Health Policy Center, Urban Institute (moderator)
Support for this series is provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, The California Endowment, the Episcopal Health Foundation, and the California Health Care Foundation. For more on Urban’s funding policies, go to urban.org/about/our-funding.
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals to engage fully. Please email [email protected] if you require any accommodations or have any questions about this event.
How do we accelerate progress and catalyze health equity solutions?
This event series features conversations with leading scholars and social changemakers that identify where barriers to equity remain and how we can collectively advance and catalyze new solutions and accelerate progress toward health care equity. Racial and ethnic disparities in health care access, quality, and outcomes persist in the United States, some 20 years after the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s report Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, which outlined steps to advance equity. In a series of virtual dialogues with the authors of papers that explore promising areas of progress and that promote accountability for action, the Urban Institute will explore next-generation health equity strategies
that states and the federal government can harness in partnership with the communities they serve.
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