Please join us for our upcoming webinar, An Epidemic of Inequality: (Un)Covering the Impact of Racism on Health, on Friday, April 2, at 10am (Pacific).
Throughout the pandemic, communities of color in the Bay Area and in the U.S. have suffered higher rates of infection and deaths, laying bare deeply rooted and systemic inequities that have long plagued our nation and health care system.
Our webinar will feature two leading physicians and researchers at UCSF, Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo and Dr. Rupa Marya, as they examine how systemic racism and other related inequities and injustices—such as police brutality, hate violence, poverty, health care disparities and overcrowded housing—lead to disproportionate illness, chronic suffering and early death rates among low-income communities of color.
The doctors will also share their research into the links and often hidden relationship between structural injustices and biology and health. And they will discuss their views on community-based and structural efforts to effectively address these inequities in medicine and in the health care system.
The webinar will be moderated by award-winning journalist Alexis Terrazas, editor-in-chief of El Tecolote, the longest-running Spanish/English bilingual newspaper in California.
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PRESENTERS
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine. She is the inaugural Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity in the UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Bibbins-Domingo co-founded the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. The center generates actionable research to increase health equity and reduce health disparities in at-risk populations in the San Francisco Bay Area, California and nationally. She leads the UCSF COVID Community Public Health Initiative.
Dr. Bibbins-Domingo is a general internist, cardiovascular disease epidemiologist and a national leader in prevention and interventions to address health disparities. She is an NIH-funded researcher who uses observational studies, pragmatic trials and simulation modeling to examine effective clinical, public health and policy interventions aimed at prevention. She leads the UCSF Cardiovascular Disease Policy Model group that conducts simulation modeling, disease projections and cost-effectiveness analyses related to cardiovascular disease in the US and in other national contexts.
Rupa Marya, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF and faculty director of the Do No Harm Coalition, an organization of over 450 health workers committed to structural change to address health problems. At the invitation of Ohlone native community, she served in medical response at the Standing Rock prayer camp, as indigenous people were encountering increasing police violence while protecting their right to clean drinking water. She was invited by Lakota health leaders and elders to help set up a permanent community clinic for the practice of decolonized medicine at Standing Rock—the Mni Wiconi Health Clinic and Farm. Dr. Marya addresses health issues at the nexus of racism and state violence through her medical work and international outreach with her band, Rupa and the April Fishes.
At the request of family and community impacted by the police shooting of Mario Woods, she has conducted national research with Dr. Sonja Mackenzie and Liz Kroboth, MPH, investigating the health effects of police violence on communities that receive no justice called The Justice Study. She is currently researching the impact of urban regenerative agriculture on the health of historically oppressed people, examining the connection between soil health, human health and inflammation. With political economist Raj Patel, Dr. Marya is the co-author of “Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice,” to be published in 2021 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
MODERATOR
Alexis Terrazas has served as the editor-in-chief of El Tecolote, the longest-running Spanish/English bilingual newspaper in California, since 2014. A San Francisco native with extensive experience both as a journalist and as an editor, Terrazas was awarded a Peninsula Press Club Herb Caen grant in 2006 and studied journalism at San Francisco State University (SFSU). While at SFSU he served on the Golden Gate Xpress as Sports Editor, won various journalism awards, and wrote articles for El Tecolote. Since joining El Tecolote, the publication has won various awards from the SF Press Club and was recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California chapter with the Silver Heart Award in 2018. Terrazas is passionate about community media and amplifying the voices of communities that have historically been silenced.
This webinar, part of Renaissance Journalism’s Equity & Health Reporting Project, is made possible with support from The California Endowment.