Date:
Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location:
Zoom
Unequal Destroyer: COVID-19 health disparities and the search for solutions
Wednesday, September 23
12-1:30 p.m. ET
Scientists from the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR) will discuss health disparities in COVID-19 infection risk, disease severity and outcomes, the factors that fuel disparities and possible solutions to address the roots of inequity in disease and health. The discussion will also include the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on homeless people, incarcerated populations and immigrants and asylum seekers.
A question-and-answer session will follow.
Speakers include:
George Q. Daley
Dean, Harvard Medical School
Barbara Bierer
Co-founder and Faculty Director, Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center at Harvard
Senior Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
J. Wesley Boyd
Co-founder and Staff Psychiatrist, Human Rights and Asylum Clinic at Cambridge Health Alliance
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Faculty, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School
Cheryl Clark
Director of Health Equity Research & Intervention, Center for Community Health and Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
James J. O’Connell
President, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Alysse Wurcel
Attending Physician, Tufts Medical Center
Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
MassCPR members are welcome to share this email with their lab groups and colleagues. NOTE: This webinar will be recorded and posted on our YouTube channel one week after event. News reporters may be present.
A question-and-answer session will follow.
Speakers include:
George Q. Daley
Dean, Harvard Medical School
Barbara Bierer
Co-founder and Faculty Director, Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center at Harvard
Senior Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
J. Wesley Boyd
Co-founder and Staff Psychiatrist, Human Rights and Asylum Clinic at Cambridge Health Alliance
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Faculty, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School
Cheryl Clark
Director of Health Equity Research & Intervention, Center for Community Health and Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
James J. O’Connell
President, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Alysse Wurcel
Attending Physician, Tufts Medical Center
Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
MassCPR members are welcome to share this email with their lab groups and colleagues. NOTE: This webinar will be recorded and posted on our YouTube channel one week after event. News reporters may be present.
This event is made possible by the Maxwell Finland Lectureship Fund.