Online Discussion Explores Racial Health Disparites

Wed 2/24 @ noon-1PM

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront once again the racial disparities in health care, with an outsized proportion of sickness and death sweeping through minority populations.

In “The Color of Health: Race, Racism and Public Policy in America,” Tri-C’s Stand for Racial Justice will look at how race impacts health outcomes and how health impacts racial minorities, causing shorter life spans and higher rates of diseases and adverse health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke and many cancers. The panelists will address how racism impacts a variety of factors that determine health, including housing, employment and education.

Program panelists include Yvonka Marie Hall, executive director of the Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition; J. Nwando Olayiwola, chair and professor of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at The Ohio State University and chief of family health services for the OSU Health System; and Sherrie D. Williams, a pulmonologist with MetroHealth System, associate professor at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine and medical director of Tri-C’s Respiratory Therapy program. OSU philosophy professor Winston C. Thompson moderates.

Go here register for the free, online program.

tri-c.edu/the-color-of-health-race-racism-and-public-policy-in-america

 

Post categories:

Leave a Reply

[fbcomments]