March
27
10:30am-6pm
Day 1: Monday, March 27
10:30AM - 3PM
NYU Kimmel Center, 9th Floor
Day 2: Tuesday, March 28
3PM - 6PM
NYU GPH
708 Broadway, 3rd Floor
Hosted by the GPH Center for Anti-racism, Social Justice, & Public Health
The Center for Anti-racism, Social Justice, & Public Health hosting its inaugural annual symposium Racism and Social Justice in Public Health. They are commemorating the 20th anniversary of the seminal report "Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare," with a keynote presentation by Dr. Brian Smedley, who is among the inaugural class of Equity Scholars at the Urban Institute.
Symposium Agenda
Day 1 - Monday, March 27
NYU Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South, 9th Floor
- 10:30AM - 11:00AM - Welcome and Breakfast
- 11:00AM - 12:00PM
- Session 1: "Undoing the War on Drugs? Implications of Contemporary Drug Policy Reforms for Health Equity and Racial Justice" - Moderated by Dr. Saba Rouhani (NYU GPH) with Dr. Spruha Joshi (NYU Langone), Dr. John Pamplin II (Columbia University), and Dr. Sheila Vakharia (Drug Policy Alliance)
- Session 2: "Data, Algorithms, and Structural Racism"- By Dr. Stephanie Cook (NYU GPH), Dr. Rumi Chunara (NYU GPH), and Dr. Michael Ralph (Howard University)
- 12:00PM - 1:00PM - Lunch
- 1:00PM - 2:00PM
- Session 1: All Of Us Poster Session - By Dr. Stephanie Cook (NYU GPH)
- Session 2: "Ban This: A Conversation on Book Bans and Rebellious Reading for Social Justice"- By Dr. Anna-Michelle McSorely (NYU GPH)
- 2:00PM - 3:00PM
- Session: "Is 'Structural Racism' A Cop Out?"- By Dr. Claudia Passos (NYU GPH), Dr. Matthew Liao (NYU GPH) and Dr. Yolonda Wilson (Saint Louis University)
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Day 2 - Tuesday, March 28
NYU School of Global Public Health, 708 Broadway, 3rd Floor
- 3:00PM - 4:00PM
- Keynote Presentation: "Unequal Treatment at 20: Accelerating Progress Toward Health Equity"- By Dr. Brian Smedley (Urban Institute)
- 4:00PM - 5:00PM
- Keynote Panel: "Addressing Systematic Racism in Health from Pathogenesis to Salutogenesis" - Featuring Dr. Brian Smedley, Dr. Keon Gilbert (Brookings Institute), Dr. Nichola Davis (NYC Health + Hospitals)
- 5:00PM - 6:30PM - Networking Reception