AMA Prioritizing Equity

In our first Prioritizing Equity panel of 2021, join leaders in health justice as they discuss strategies for equity in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

Panel:

• Torian Easterling, MD, MPH—First deputy commissioner and chief equity officer at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
• Kaakpema "KP" Yelpaala, MPH—Chief executive officer & founder, access.mobile International, Inc.

Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association

Originally aired January 28, 2021.

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In the December 10, 2020 edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, leaders in health justice will discuss misinformation, trustworthiness, and strategies to handle vaccine hesitancy among patients and health care professionals.

Panel:

• Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc: UNC at Chapel Hill Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine and Medicine at the School of Medicine.
• Kim Gallon, PhD: Associate Professor of History at Purdue University and founder and executive director of COVID Black.
• Margaret P. Moss, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN: Hidatsa/Dakhóta, Director of the First Nations House of Learning and an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at University of British Columbia.
• Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS: Founding Director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) & Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine, Public Health, and Management at Yale School of Medicine.
• Lauren Smith, MD, MPH: Chief Health Equity and Strategy Officer for the CDC Foundation.

Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, Chief Health Equity Officer, Group Vice President, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association

Originally aired: December 10th, 2020

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In the November 19, 2020 edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, leaders in public health and academia discuss the power of data in understanding health inequities and the systemic issues that cause them to persist. Topics will include COVID-19, the social and political context surrounding data and data analysis, as well as the challenges of quantifying health inequities and the structural and social determinants of health.

Panel:

• Maureen Benjamins, PhD, senior research fellow at the Sinai Urban Health Institute
• Nancy Krieger, PhD, professor of social epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Science at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Alyasah Ali Sewell, PhD, associate professor of sociology at Emory University and founder and director of The Race and Policing Project

Moderator: Fernando De Maio, PhD, director, research and data use, AMA Center for Health Equity

Originally aired: November 19th, 2020

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In the November 12, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, moderates a post-election conversation focusing on centering equity in health policy 2020 and beyond, plus what needs to be critical priorities when it comes to advancing advance racial and health justice.

Panel:

• Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH, president and CEO of Health Begins
• Manisha A. Sharma, MD, FAAFP, co-founder of Vote Health 2020
• B. Cameron Webb, MD, JD, director of Health Equity Policy and Equity at University of Virginia School of Medicine

Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, AMA chief health equity officer and vice president

Originally aired: November 12th, 2020

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In the AMA's October 29, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel, health care leaders held a critical conversation on approaches to dismantling race-based medicine across clinical practice, education and research.

Panel:

• Nwamaka Eneanya, MD, MPH, FASN, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology, director of health equity, anti-racism and community engagement
• Rohan Khazanchi, BA, MD/MPH candidate, medical student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center & University of Minnesota School of Public Health; member of the AMA Council on Medical Education and the AMA Medical Student Section's Region 2 delegation chair
• Michelle Morse, MD, MPH, co-founder, EqualHealth; assistant professor, Harvard Medical School Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow
• Jennifer Tsai, MD, MEd, emergency medicine physician, writer, educator and advocate in New Haven, Connecticut
• Darshali Vyas, MD, second-year resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA

Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, AMA chief health equity officer and vice president

Originally aired: October 29th, 2020

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This Hispanic Heritage Month, public health leaders on the Oct. 15, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel discuss COVID-19 and the Latinx community. Topics include structural racism, the invisibility of the Latinx community in mainstream topics and the impact this has on health care access and quality.

Panel:

• Rita Carreón, deputy vice president of health, UnidosUS
• Ray Mendez, MD, MA, founding physician, MiMedico
• Ruth Enid Zambrana, PhD, distinguished university professor and interim chair, Department of Women's Studies, director, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, and adjunct professor, family medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine

Guest moderator: Diana Lemos, PhD, MPH, program manager, AMA Center for Health Equity

COVID-19 and Latinx Community Report: http://cloud.e.ama-assn.org/20-1643-COVIDLatinx

Originally aired: October 15th, 2020

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On October 1, 2020, the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series joined Chicago's public health leaders as they shared lessons learned, discussed the importance of equity and illuminated the challenges health departments have faced in response to the pandemic.

Panel:

• Allison Arwady, MD, MPH—Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health
• Candace Moore, JD—Chief equity officer for the City of Chicago
• Eve Shapiro, MPH—Senior director of data & evaluation at West Side United

Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association

Originally aired: October 1, 2020

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In the September 17, 2020 installment of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, physician leaders discuss the ways in which COVID-19 may uniquely impact the traditional voting process, precautions for in-person voting and the importance of the voting process for minoritized and marginalized communities.

Panel:

• Nathan T. Chomilo, MD, FAAP—Medical director for the State of Minnesota's Medicaid & MinnesotaCare. Currently the interim policy & advocacy workgroup chair for the American Academy of Pediatrics' Section on Minority Health Equity and Inclusion.
• Manisha A. Sharma, MD, FAAFP—California Health Care Foundation, leadership fellow.

Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association.

Originally aired September 17, 2020.

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In the Sept. 3, 2020, webinar of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, public health officials from New York City explore how they have worked to center equity during the COVID-19 response. The New York City Department of Health team shares how partnerships and community collaboration has been key in bringing the city to a suppression phase during the pandemic.

Panel:

• Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH—Deputy commissioner, disease control at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
• Torian Easterling, MD, MPH—Deputy commissioner for health equity and community wellness at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
• Neil M. Vora, MD—Director of tracing at NYC Health Department/Health + Hospital Corporation

Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association

Originally aired: September 3rd, 2020

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Explore the relationship between political determinants of health and health equity in this August 20, 2020, installment of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity YouTube series. Join us as leaders in health care and politics discuss both the immediate and long-term impact political determinants of health have on the nation as it grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Panel:

• Daniel E. Dawes, JD—Professor of health policy, director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine and author of the book "The Political Determinants of Health."
• Jesus "Chuy" Garcia—Congressman Garcia represents the 4th Congressional District of Illinois. He currently serves as a member of the influential Financial Services Committee, Natural Resources Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He is a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC).

Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association.

Originally aired: August 20th, 2020

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