June 23: Building Health Equity and Envisioning a Culture of Change — with Dr. David R. Williams
by UAA Center for Human Development Project ECHO |
Join us Thursday, June 23, 5-6:30 p.m. via Zoom for the final session of the six part Health Equity Grand Rounds ECHO exploring racism in medicine, health equity, and COVID-19 in Alaska. Register here.
Our culminating session will include an open forum for discussion of visions of health equity for Anchorage and beyond and feature a presentation by world renown scientist David R. Williams, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Dr. Williams is the Norman Professor of Public Health and Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also a Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His prior faculty appointments were at Yale University and the University of Michigan.
An internationally recognized social scientist, his research has enhanced our understanding of the complex ways in which socioeconomic status, race, stress, racism, health behavior and religious involvement can affect health. He is the author of more than 500 scientific papers and the Everyday Discrimination Scale that he developed is the most widely used measure of discrimination in health studies.
Dr. Williams is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He has received Distinguished Contribution Awards from the American Sociological Association, the American Psychological Association, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He has been ranked as the Most Cited Black Scholar in the Social Sciences, worldwide, and as one of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds. He has played a visible, national leadership role in raising awareness levels of inequities in health, including serving as staff director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America and a key scientific advisor to the award-winning PBS film series, Unnatural Causes: Is inequality Making Us Sick? His research has been featured in the national print and television media and in his TED Talk.
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