Hosted by the GPH Department of Global & Environmental Health (GEH)
Racial health disparities are differences in health status due to unequal treatment of people of color. What drives this unequal treatment? How do we health professionals contribute to racial health disparities? How do we put a stop to them? Hosted by GPH's Dr. Wilson Wang, come for an hour of games, insight, technology and discussion applied to anti-prejudice engineering in medical and public health settings.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Wilson Wang is a Visiting Associate Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global and Environmental Health at NYU GPH. He is also a pediatrician with expertise in primary and secondary medical care delivery in resource poor settings, pandemic response, behavior change, teen behavioral health, and health policy and politics. Dr. Wang has lived and worked globally for more than 20 years. Some of these places include: Rwanda, Liberia, Indonesia, and countries throughout Central America. Domestically, he has spearheaded the passage of legislation through the U.S. Congress, directed programs within New York City's Department of Health, and practices acute care pediatrics in the emergency department and hospital ward. He is also the Founder and CEO of Walking Doctors (walkingdoctors.co), a company that produces a checklist-based electronic health record to help care providers adhere to evidence-based guidelines with the outcomes to prove it.