RBHS Round Table Discussion 6/26

June 26, 2020

RBHS Round Table Discussion 6/26

Chancellor Strom and colleagues discussed health disparities magnified by COVID-19 and explored ways to dismantle the structural racialization that underlies them.

Brief presentations were made by:

• Brian L. Strom, M.D., MPH
  Chancellor, RBHS
  Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Rutgers University
• Sangeeta Lamba, MD, MS-HPEd
  Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion, RBHS
  Professor, Emergency Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
• Henry F. Raymond, DrPH, MPH
  Associate Professor, Biostatistics – Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health
  Associate Director for Public Health, The Center for COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness
• Denise V. Rodgers, MD, FAAFP
  Vice Chancellor for Interprofessional Programs
  Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
• Patricia N. Whitley-Williams, MD
  Associate Dean for Inclusion and Diversity, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  Chief, Allergy, Immunology and Infectious Disease, Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Thank you to everyone who submitted a question for the discussion.  The deadline to submit questions for this discussion has passed.

Everyone was invited to submit questions for discussion during the round table by emailing questions to emailrbhs@rbhs.rutgers.edu by June 21, 2020.

Please note that, due to time constraints, some questions may have been combined based on commonalities and that the names of individuals who submitted questions were not identified during the meeting.

Please send us your feedback

Please email your feedback about this session to emailrbhs@rbhs.rutgers.edu.  Please let us know if you would like to see more round table events and, if so, please include suggestions for future topics and panelists.

Resources

Visit Together We Grow, resources for the RBHS community to acknowledge and address the impact of systemic racism.

View previous round table discussions:

• April 29, 2020 RBHS Round Table Discussion
• June 4, 2020 RBHS Round Table Discussion