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Racial equity in access to vaccines


February 17, 2021
By Michele Learner
We know that COVID-19 is not “equal opportunity.” People who contract the virus and people who die are disproportionately people of color, particularly Black people. The data available so far illustrate clearly how the pandemic affects different racial groups differently. 
A recent Bread for the World Institute resource, “Racially Equitable Responses to COVID-19,” explains how systemic racism causes such inequitable outcomes. Some of the aspects of racism that most affect both hunger and COVID-19 are job segregation, residential segregation, inequitable access to health care, and interpersonal racism.
Late in 2020, as the release of COVID-19 vaccines was on the horizon and then as the United States began the monumental task of vaccinating as many people as possible, several organizations began efforts to track data on access to vaccines and then use this information to develop ways to advance racial equity. ....

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Community health workers, often overlooked, bring trust to the pandemic fight


Community health workers, often overlooked, bring trust to the pandemic fight
Michele Cohen Marill, Kaiser Health News
Cheryl Garfield
For 11 months, Cheryl Garfield, a community health worker in West Philadelphia, has been a navigator of pandemic loss and hardship. She makes calls to people who are isolated in their homes, people who are sick and afraid and people who can’t afford their rent or can’t get an appointment with a doctor.
The conversations always start with a basic question: “Tell me about yourself.” She wants to know her clients before she figures out how she can help.
“Sometimes a patient just needs somebody to listen to them, so you just listen,” said Garfield, 52. ....

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Health Disparities Symposium Presenters | NYU Langone Health


Health Disparities Symposium Presenters | NYU Langone Health
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Health Disparities Symposium Presenters
NYU Langone’s Section for Health Equity was honored to host Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, as the keynote speaker for the 2020 Health Disparities Symposium, which was centered around the theme “Turning Research into Action.”
Keynote Address
With more than 30 years of experience in public health, Dr. Mary T. Bassett has dedicated her career to advancing health equity. Dr. Bassett is currently the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H ....

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