Racism: The Ultimate Underlying Condition - APHA webinar

This kick-off webinar of APHA's Advancing Racial Equity series will examine racism and its historic and present-day impact on health and well-being. Presenters will:

• identify the multiple levels on which racism operates;
• describe the physiological impacts of racism and discrimination on health; and
• explore the principles for and barriers to achieving health equity.

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Welcome/Opening Remarks

• APHA Executive Director Georges Benjamin, MD

Introduction

• APHA President-Elect José Ramón Fernández-Peña, MD, MPA, Director of Health Professions Advising, Northwestern University

Presenters

• APHA Past President Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, 2019-2020 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
• Amani Allen, PhD, MPH, Executive Associate Dean, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Moderator

• Tia Taylor Williams, Director, APHA Center for Public Health Policy and Center for School Health and Education