Wed 9/27 @ 7PM
As our legislature ponders whether to make Ohio a sicker, poorer state by overriding Governor Kasich’s veto of their plan to dump Medicaid expansion, consider another health crisis (in addition to the highly publicized opioid crisis) that this would make worse: Ohio’s shamefully high infant mortality rate among minorities, one of the country’s highest. In Ohio, black babies dies at a rate three times higher than white babies — and their mortality rate is already higher than it should be.
Plain Dealer reporter Brie Zeltner will moderate a panel discussion at the main branch of the Cleveland Height-University Heights Library, talking about why this is, what role racism plays and what can be done to address it (keeping Medicaid expansion would be a good start).
Panelists include Christin Farmer, excutive director of Birthing Beautiful Communities; Dr. Arthur R. James of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity; and Angela Newman White, supervisor for the maternal & child health program at the Cuyahoga County Board of Halth.
It’s free and open to the public.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118