AMA Prioritizing Equity

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. COVID-19 has highlighted the persistent health inequities that exist in the U.S. In this April 19, 2021, edition of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, health leaders use the pandemic as a lens to examine how quality and safety can drive equitable health care and outcomes moving forward. Panel: Louis H. Hart, MD—Director of eq...

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. COVID-19 has changed the nature of work for many Americans. The April 5, 2021 installment of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series explores why employers must be as equally invested as the government and health care community in ensuring equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for their workforce. Panel: Marina Del Rios, MD, MS—Ass...

AMA's Prioritizing Equity series brings together revered voices to discuss how a year of the pandemic has impacted minoritized and marginalized physicians, in this March 18, 2021 webinar. In a conversation moderated by AMA Group Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, experts illuminate the effect COVID-19 has had on communities that historically and contemporarily...

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In this February 25, 2021, edition of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, leaders in health justice discuss how trauma-informed approaches impact advancing equity among minoritized and marginalized communities during COVID-19. Panel: Alec Calac—Pauma Band of Luiseño Indians; global public health MD/PhD student at UC San Diego...

In this February 11, 2021, installment of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, health justice leaders and advocates as discuss the ways in which COVID-19 uniquely impacts people with disabilities. Tune in as they share immediate and long-term improvement strategies for ensuring equity. Panel: Irma Gomez— Assistant director of the learning commons at Roosevelt University and advocate for students...

In our first Prioritizing Equity panel of 2021, join leaders in health justice as they discuss strategies for equity in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. Panel: Torian Easterling, MD, MPH—First deputy commissioner and chief equity officer at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Kaakpema "KP" Yelpaala, MPH—Chief executive officer & founder, access.mobile International, Inc. Moderato...

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In the December 10, 2020 edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, leaders in health justice will discuss misinformation, trustworthiness, and strategies to handle vaccine hesitancy among patients and health care professionals. Panel: Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc: UNC at Chapel Hill Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity...

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In the November 19, 2020 edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, leaders in public health and academia discuss the power of data in understanding health inequities and the systemic issues that cause them to persist. Topics will include COVID-19, the social and political context surrounding data and data analysis, as well as t...

In the November 12, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, moderates a post-election conversation focusing on centering equity in health policy 2020 and beyond, plus what needs to be critical priorities when it comes to advancing advance racial and health justice. Panel: Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH, president and CEO of Health Begins Manisha A. Sharma, MD, FAAFP, co-founder of Vote...

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In the AMA's October 29, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel, health care leaders held a critical conversation on approaches to dismantling race-based medicine across clinical practice, education and research. Panel: Nwamaka Eneanya, MD, MPH, FASN, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology, director of health equity, anti-rac...

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. This Hispanic Heritage Month, public health leaders on the Oct. 15, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel discuss COVID-19 and the Latinx community. Topics include structural racism, the invisibility of the Latinx community in mainstream topics and the impact this has on health care access and quality. Panel: Rita Carreón, deputy vice...

On October 1, 2020, the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series joined Chicago's public health leaders as they shared lessons learned, discussed the importance of equity and illuminated the challenges health departments have faced in response to the pandemic. Panel: Allison Arwady, MD, MPH—Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health Candace Moore, JD—Chief equity officer for the City of Chica...

In the September 17, 2020 installment of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, physician leaders discuss the ways in which COVID-19 may uniquely impact the traditional voting process, precautions for in-person voting and the importance of the voting process for minoritized and marginalized communities. Panel: Nathan T. Chomilo, MD, FAAP—Medical director for the State of Minnesota's Medicaid & Minn...

In the Sept. 3, 2020, webinar of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, public health officials from New York City explore how they have worked to center equity during the COVID-19 response. The New York City Department of Health team shares how partnerships and community collaboration has been key in bringing the city to a suppression phase during the pandemic. Panel: Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH—D...

Explore the relationship between political determinants of health and health equity in this August 20, 2020, installment of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity YouTube series. Join us as leaders in health care and politics discuss both the immediate and long-term impact political determinants of health have on the nation as it grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic. Panel: Daniel E. Dawes, JD—Professor of...

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In this August 6, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel, join the AMA's Immediate-past President Patrice Harris, MD, Chief Health Equity Officer Aletha Maybank, MD, and health leader Luz M. Garcini, PhD, MPH, as they illuminate COVID-19's immediate and long-term effects on the mental health of minoritized and marginalized communities....

Explore the ways COVID-19 may uniquely impact Asian American and Pacific Islander communities during the latest installment of our YouTube health equity series. Hear from East Asian, Pacific Islander, and South Asian health care leaders on topics such as the pandemic's impact on Asian communities, data trends, and health equity concerns. Panel: Ignatius Bau, JD—Policy consultant for the National C...

In this July 2, 2020, installment of our Prioritizing Equity YouTube series, join physicians and health equity leaders as they illuminate the ways in which physicians are moving upstream to reimagine, redesign and reconstruct what a more equitable health care system can look like. Panel: Sandra Hernández, MD—President & CEO, California Health Care Foundation Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH—President & CE...

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. This June 18, 2020 installment of Prioritizing Equity focused on how COVID-19 may uniquely impact LGBTQ individuals and communities. Hear from LGBTQ physician leaders on topics such as the pandemic's impact on testing, trends and equity concerns in health care and beyond. Panel: Oni Blackstock, MD—Assistant commissioner for the...

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In the June 11, 2020, installment of our YouTube Prioritizing Equity series, join practicing physicians and leaders in health care as they share how they are addressing root causes of inequity during COVID-19 and beyond—by centering equity in their workspaces and dismantling racist policies and practices. Panel: David A. Ansell,...

Police brutality, racism and COVID-19 have uniquely, and detrimentally, impacted the health of Black communities. In the June 4, 2020 installment of our Prioritizing Equity series, health equity leaders discuss how physicians and others can address root causes of inequity by naming racism. Panel: Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, pediatrician and child health advocate at Palo Alto Medical Foundation and UCSF Be...

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In the May 28, 2020, Prioritizing Equity webinar, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, chief health equity officer at the AMA, speaks with a panel of health equity advocates and trailblazers on their work to address the root causes of health inequity and the social determinants of health. Panel: Zinzi Bailey, ScD, MSPH—Assistant scientist,...

Explore the ways COVID-19 may uniquely impact Native communities across the country in the May 21, 2020 installment of our YouTube Prioritizing Equity series. Hear from leaders on topics such as how to build trust with Native communities who may be skeptical of the medical field, highlight how COVID-19 is affecting Native communities, and more. Panel: Mary Owen, MD | Tlingit Tribe: Director for th...

On the May 14, 2020, Prioritizing Equity webinar, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, AMA chief health equity officer, and guests discuss the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on Latinx physicians and the Latinx community, highlighting how the public health crisis has deepened preexisting inequities. Topics on this episode include the pandemic's impact on immigrant communities, COVID-19 testing, trends an...

In the May 7, 2020 Prioritizing Equity webinar, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, chief health equity officer at the AMA, speaks with a panel of medical students, some of the nation's youngest medical leaders, as they share their thoughts on the immediate and long-term health equity considerations and impact this pandemic poses. Panel: Alec Calac, Association of Native American Medical Students UC San Dieg...