Today, and as we look to the future, numerous concepts, beliefs, practices, policies, and systems pose threats to health equity. To raise awareness of the most pressing issues for health equity and to ideate on solutions, the P4HE Collaborative hosted a town hall style webinar to uplift questions on current and future threats to health equity and the actions needed to overcome them.
This webinar amplified our participants' voices, by posing submitted questions to a panel of cross-sector subject matter experts.
Objectives
1. Identify and discuss ways to overcome current and future threats to health equity.
2. Uplift diverse perspectives on pressing health equity issues.
3. Set the stage for developing an agenda for health equity.
Panelists
Dr. Chris Pernell, Director, Center For Health Equity, NAACP
Angela Chalk, Founder and Executive Director of Healthy Community Services
Sinsi Hernandez Cancio, Vice President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Alma Stewart, Founder and President, Louisiana Development Office of Women’s
Moderator
Caryn Bell, Associate Director P4HE, Tulane Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine