Please join us for the 2020 Kreuter Katz Lecture on Health Equity hosted by the School of Public Health at Georgia State University. The 2020 lecture features Angela Glover Blackwell, the Founder in Residence at PolicyLink, the organization she started in 1999 to advance racial and economic equity for all. Under Angela’s leadership, PolicyLink gained [...]
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the highest rates of HIV diagnoses are in the South, and Georgia has some of the highest rates in the nation. Participants will hear more about the disparities that persist in HIV transmission and treatment and the work taking place to achieve equity in HIV care [...]
Join us for a conversation with award-winning journalist Linda Villarosa and Leandris Liburd, Ph.D., CDC’s associate director for minority health and health equity. The pandemic illuminated racial disparities in COVID-19 related deaths, with Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous populations dying at more than double the rates of whites. But, health disparities are not new. From life [...]
