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Addressing the Root Causes of Health Disparities

October 29 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Our health status should not be predicated on our place of residence, but that is invariably the case across the country, and particularly true in St. Louis, where the life expectancy living in an inner-city ZIP code is 18 years lower than someone living in a ZIP code less than 10 miles away. There are many factors that have conspired to reduce the health status of Black Americans in the U.S. These include social and structural determinants of health, such as systemic racism and sociocultural barriers, which lead to inadequate social and built environments, inadequate information and knowledge, risk-promoting lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors, exposure to carcinogens, and diminished access to health care. The persistence of unconscionable disparities obligates systemic reform to improve the health of the African American community. Rebuilding our neighborhoods and schools, and eliminating intergenerational poverty would go a long way to improving the health of African Americans in St. Louis.

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Details

Date:
October 29
Time:
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Venue

Auditorium
9001 Clayton Road
St. Louis, MO 63117 + Google Map
Phone
314.991.0955

Organizer

EthicalStL

Speaker

Will Ross
Will Ross, M.D./Master of Public Health, is associate dean for diversity, principal officer for community partnerships, and alumni-endowed professor of medicine in the Nephrology Division at Washington University School of Medicine. For over 25 years, Dr. Ross has developed innovative medical school pipeline programs and recruited and developed a diverse workforce of medical students, residents and faculty. He has promoted health equity locally, nationally and globally through collaborations with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and public health officials in Ethiopia and Haiti. He recently co-developed an undergraduate program in public health in Haiti. He is the founder of the former Saturday Free Health Clinic and co-founder of Casa de Salud Latino Health Center. Dr. Ross is also advisory board chair and founding member of the Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience, a magnet health professions high school in St. Louis. A graduate of Yale University, he completed medical school at Washington University School of Medicine, an Internal Medicine residency at Vanderbilt University, and a Renal Fellowship at Washington University. He completed a Master of Science in Epidemiology at Saint Louis University School of Public Health.

Music

Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond
Description:
This Platform will feature Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond. A dual citizen of Meridian, Mississippi and East St. Louis, Illinois, Treasure is a published poet, master educator, community arts organizer, and culture keeper. As a teen, she was signed to M.C. Hammer’s label as a hip hop artist and writer. She is the author of chop: a collection of kwansabas for fannie lou hamer (2015). Dr. Redmond is the co-founder of Fannie Lou Hamer House, an artist’s retreat located in Illinois, and is the founder of The Community Archive, a nonprofit where she teaches communities how to collect their elders’ oral histories. Dr. Redmond can be contacted at www.FemininePronoun.com. "My nonprofit — THE COMMUNITY ARCHIVE — is up and running and we are working on a podcast project that will feature the descendants of 1917 East St. Louis Race Massacre survivors. Donate here to help that work! You can also support Fannie Lou Hamer House by making a small donation to our Patreon." – Treasure

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