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Turning the Tide:

Understanding and Eliminating Minority Health Disparities

Monthly series | January – July 2021

Series details

Bringing together experts from UAlbany, HANYS and other project and community partners through monthly panels, Turning the Tide is designed to facilitate essential conversations in understanding and eliminating minority health disparities.

Each webinar in the series, running January through July, includes a panel of experts from HANYS and UAlbany membership. The first webinar will run 90 minutes to lay the foundation for the series and set the stage for the panels to follow. Subsequent webinars will be 60 minutes and include opening presentations by panelists followed by participant Q&A.

Participants can choose to attend some or all sessions.

Schedule

Jan. 13 | View a recording of this session.

Quantifying the Extent of Minority Health Disparities Experienced with COVID-19

Series introduction:

Bea Grause, RN, JD, President, HANYS

Havidán Rodríguez, PhD, President, University at Albany, SUNY

Moderator:

Courtney Burke, Chief Operating and Innovation Officer, HANYS

Panelists:

David Holtgrave, PhD, Dean, University at Albany, School of Public Health

Debbie Salas-Lopez, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President, Community and Population Health, Northwell Health

Description

There is stark, though incomplete, evidence of racial and ethnic inequalities in the toll of COVID-19 on New Yorkers. COVID-19 fatality rates for Black and Hispanic New Yorkers are more than double those for white residents, with even greater disparities outside New York City. The rates of hospitalization, test-confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis and exposure in New York City also reveal substantial racial and ethnic disparities. Further, estimates based on the available data suggest important differences in the way these disparities manifest for groups at different stages of the disease — from exposure to death or recovery.

This panel will present findings from recent examinations of the extent of disparities, in New York state and elsewhere, and share insights on how expansions to baseline data could build new understanding about inequalities in the spread of the virus in order to devise public health interventions that account for each demographic group’s unique experience.

Full details for each session coming soon.

Feb. 9 | 1 – 2 p.m.

Community-engaged Strategies to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Mitigate Health Disparities in Minority Populations

March 9 | 1 – 2 p.m.

Serving Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Patients Amid and Beyond COVID-19

April 13 | 1 – 2 p.m.

The Impact of COVID-19 on Sexual and Reproductive Health Disparities: Perspectives of Frontline Providers in New York State

May 11 | 1 – 2 p.m.

Black and Latinx Mental Health Disparities: Experiences with Telemental Health Services

June 8 | 1 – 2 p.m.

Human Behavior and Risk Perception

July 13 | 1 – 2 p.m.

Session to be announced

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