Health Equity Thought Leaders Illuminate CGR's Mission
Launched in 2018, CGR hosts local and nationally recognized experts to discuss issues of trauma, health equity, and the impact structural racism has on our health.
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April 2018: Tasha Turner, MA, LPC, CCTP
- Psychotherapist and Chief Program Officer, Turning Point, Inc.
- "The Unexpected Relationship Between Trauma and Chronic Illness"
- Trauma and Chronic Illness
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April 2018: Dr. Patricia Rush, MD
- Internal medicine specialist
- "What Racism Does to the Body"
- What Racism Does to the Body
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July 2018: Professor David Williams, PhD
- Professor of Public Health, African-American Studies, and Sociology at Harvard University
- "The Biological Consequences of Racism and What We Can Do About It"
- The Biological Consequences of Racism
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October 2018: Dr. David Ansell, MD, MPH
- Physician, social epidemiologist, and author of The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills
- "How Inequality Kills: Health Systems and Health Equity"
- Closing the Death Gap
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August 2019: Dr. Bechara Choucair, MD
- White House Vaccinations Coordinator, Public Health Advisor for Kaiser Permanente
- "Advancing Health? It's About the Mind, the Body, and the Community"
- On Mind, Body, and Community
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November 2019: Debby Irving
- Author of Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
- "I'm a good person. Isn't that enough?: How Power and Privilege Undermine Best Intentions"
- I'm a good person. Isn't that enough?
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November 2019: Professor Arline Geronimus, Sc.D.
- Professor of Public Health at the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center
- "Weathering and Health Inequality: Letting the Epigenome Out of the Bottle Without Losing Sight of the Structural Origins of Population Health"
- On Race and "Weathering"
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September 2020: Harriet Washington
- Author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
- "Building a Trustworthy Health Care System: Notes from History, Ethics, and Contemporary Crisis"
- On Medical Apartheid
- Our Interview with Harriet Washington
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October 2021: Dr. Nwamaka Eneanya, MD, MPH
- Nephrologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- "Controversies in Medicine: Lessons from Using Race to Manage Kidney Disease"
- On Racial Justice and Kidney Disease
- Our Interview with Dr. Eneanya
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November 2021: Daniel E. Dawes, JD
- Executive Director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine
- "The Political Determinants of Health"
- The Political Determinants of Health
- Our Interview with Daniel Dawes