Partners for Advancing Health Equity: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to Partners for Advancing Health Equity, a podcast bringing together people working on the forefront of addressing issues of health justice. Here we create a space for in-depth conversations about what it will take to create the conditions that allow all people to live their healthiest life possible. Partners for Advancing Health Equity is led by Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, is a part of the Tulane Institute for Innovation in Health Equity and is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
In this episode of the series, Pathways to Health Equity, we speak with Dr. Paula Braveman, Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Founding Director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), about her life experiences and their influence on her path in the field as well as her thoughts on the past, present, and future state of health equity. For more than 25 years, she has studied and published extensively on health equity and the social determinants of health. For her full bio :
https://profiles.ucsf.edu/paula.braveman
Papers discussed in this episode:
· Systemic and Structural Racism: definitions, examples, health damages, and approaches to dismantling. Health Affairs 2022
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01394
· Paula A Braveman, Shiriki Kumanyika, Jonathan Fielding, Thomas LaVeist, Luisa N Borrell, Ron Manderscheid, Adewale Troutman. Health disparities and Health Equity:
The Issue is Justice. Am J Public Health 2011
In this episode of the series Pathways to Health Equity, we speak with Dr. Sherman James, the Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, about growing up in the Deep South, firsthand experiences during the civil rights movement, and other circumstances that put him on the path of health justice, establishing him as a leader and innovator in the field. Full bio:
https://sanford.duke.edu/profile/sherman-james/
Papers discussed in this episode:
Tyroler, H. A., and S. A. James. “Blood pressure and skin color.” American Journal of Public Health 68, no. 12 (December 1978): 1170–72. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.68.12.1170.
From our inaugural webinar held March 8, 2002, we hear from national cross-sector thought-leaders as we discuss next steps in health equity practice and policy across research, community, and funders. Hosted by Thomas LaVeist, Dean, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity. Panelists in this episode:
- Sharrelle Barber, Director, The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements, and Population Health Equity at the Dornsife School of Public Health
- Sinsi Hernández-Cancio, Vice President for Health Justice, National Partnership for Women and Families
- Cara James, President and CEO, Grantmakers In Health
- Al Richmond, Executive Director, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
From our inaugural webinar held March 8, 2002, we introduce Partners for Advancing Health Equity, a research learning collaborative designed to spark discussion, share learning, foster collaboration, and facilitate resource exchange for the promotion of action-oriented health equity research, practice, and policies. It also includes the current state of health inequities, and why we must identify next steps necessary to improve the lives of those impacted by social injustices.
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