In this episode we talk with Colin Killick, Executive Director of Disability Policy Consortium, about how and why the disability community has been largely left out of the health equity conversation. We cover what health equity should look like for people with disabilities and the Social Model of Disability, its definition of disability, and how this impacts advocacy and policy making. We also hear about Colin’s work with Disability Policy Consortium and their efforts and accomplishments to improve equity and housing for the disabled community and how others can advocate and be allies for people with disabilities.

Host: Caryn Bell, Associate Director, Partners for Advancing Health Equity, Assistant Professor, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Guest: Colin Killick, Executive Director, Disability Policy Consortium

Resources:
Webinar mentioned in this episode: Setting Health Equity Visions for Success, March 28, 2023, hosted by Partners for Advancing Health Equity

Disability Policy Consortium Legislative Access Agenda

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In this episode of the series, Pathways to Health Equity, we speak with Dr. Paula Braveman, Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Founding Director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), about her life experiences and their influence on her path in the field as well as her thoughts on the past, present, and future state of health equity. For more than 25 years, she has studied and published extensively on health equity and the social determinants of health. Full bio: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/paula.braveman

Papers discussed in this episode:

• Systemic and Structural Racism: definitions, examples, health damages, and approaches to dismantling. Health Affairs 2022

• Paula A Braveman, Shiriki Kumanyika, Jonathan Fielding, Thomas LaVeist, Luisa N Borrell, Ron Manderscheid, Adewale Troutman. Health disparities and Health Equity: The Issue is Justice. Am J Public Health 2011

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In this episode of the series, Pathways to Health Equity, we speak with Dr. Sherman James, the Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, about growing up in the Deep South, firsthand experiences during the civil rights movement, and other circumstances that put him on the path of health justice, establishing him as a leader and innovator in the field. Full bio: https://sanford.duke.edu/profile/sherman-james/

Papers discussed in this episode:

Tyroler, H. A., and S. A. James. “Blood pressure and skin color.” American Journal of Public Health 68, no. 12 (December 1978): 1170–72.James, S. A.

“John Henryism and the health of African-Americans.” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 18, no. 2 (June 1994): 163–82.

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From our inaugural webinar held March 8, 2002, we hear from national cross-sector thought-leaders as we discuss next steps in health equity practice and policy across research, community, and funders. Hosted by Thomas LaVeist, Dean, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity. Panelists in this episode:

• Sharrelle Barber, Director, The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements, and Population Health Equity at the Dornsife School of Public Health
• Sinsi Hernández-Cancio, Vice President for Health Justice, National Partnership for Women and Families
• Cara James, President and CEO, Grantmakers In Health
• Al Richmond, Executive Director, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

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From our inaugural webinar held March 8, 2022, we introduce Partners for Advancing Health Equity, a research learning collaborative designed to spark discussion, share learning, foster collaboration, and facilitate resource exchange for the promotion of action-oriented health equity research, practice, and policies. It also includes the current state of health inequities, and why we must identify next steps necessary to improve the lives of those impacted by social injustices.

Presented by:Thomas LaVeist, Dean, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity

Andrew Anderson, Associate Director, Partners for Advancing Health Equity, Assistant Professor, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

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