COVID-19 Healthcare Gaps: Testing and Treatment Disparities on Black & Brown Populations
Register for a 1-hour Zoom panel discussing pandemic healthcare equity gaps ... & how policymakers and communities can creatively collaborate to address them now
a CSG East Council on Communities of Color project
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The Council of State Governments Eastern Regional Conference, Council on Communities of Color presents a new installment in an ongoing series of conversations or micro-summits called "CSG East on COVID-19" or #CSGCOVID19.
These discussions offer insights, analysis and solutions on numerous challenges communities and governments face as the COVID-19 crisis ensues. This micro-summit will take place via Zoom on Friday, April 17th, 10am - 11am ET.
These micro-summits are being produced in partnership with the B|E Note (theBEnote.com). It is a unique convening of state and local policy makers, experts and thinkers concerned about the massive equity gaps exposed and worsened by the global coronavirus pandemic. One of those issues is the disparity in testing and medical treatment for diverse Black and Brown populations. Racial and income bias have always existed in the medical field, from how underserved populations experience lack of access to healthcare to finding themselves constantly under-diagnosed or how race and income determine their level of care. That bias is showing up in the lack of coronavirus testing in hardest hit Black communities and effecting their odds of survival.
Join us for a 1-hour panel to discuss those gaps and ways in which districts, policymakers and communities can creatively collaborate and address them now.
Registrants will receive a Zoom access link by 8am EST on the morning of Fri., April 17th. Audience members will be able to ask questions by chat.
Join us for a 1-hour panel to discuss those gaps and ways in which districts, policymakers and communities can creatively collaborate and address them now.
Panelists
Delegate Joseline Peña-Melnyk, Maryland, CSG East CCC Vice Chair
Leon McDougle, MD, MPH, President Elect National Medical Association
Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins, Ph.D., Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion
Moderator
Charles Ellison, CSG East Fellow | Host of "Reality Check" on WURD radio | Publisher, theBEnote.com
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