30666 - Uprooting and Replanting for Equity: Reflecting and Collectively Addressing Root Causes of Racialized Health Inequities

Description

In the heat of the early Covid-19 pandemic fury, Chief health equity officer and senior VP of the American Medical Association (AMA), Dr Aletha Maybank, organized a webinar titled “The Root Cause: Prioritizing Equity” where interdisciplinary “health equity advocates and trailblazers” discussed research, policy, and advocacy work on addressing the root causes of health inequity during moments of health crises. The webinar has now amassed close to twenty thousand views and was influential in shifting conversations to consider structural systems as root causes. We are now five years out, and the ramifications of the pandemic on exacerbating inequities in marginalized communities are even more clear. Yet, the bridge to health equity is still rocky. This session brings together some of the same trailblazers to share what we have since learned about the root causes of structural racism, structural sexism, and capitalism in harming collective health. Importantly, the panel will also discuss how ASA can work with other disciplines and organizations, to better advance health equity.

Sub Unit

• Special Session

Presider

• Whitney Nicole Laster Pirtle, University of California-Los Angeles

Panelists

• Zinzi Bailey, University of Minnesota

• Jonathan M. Metzl, Vanderbilt University

• Camara Jones, King's College London/Rollins School of Public Health/Morehouse School of Medicine

• Joia Crear-Perry, National Birth Equity Collaborative

Session Organizer

• Whitney Nicole Laster Pirtle, University of California-Los Angeles