Upcoming webinars tackle racism and midlife health
October 5, 2021 //
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You are invited to two webinars hosted by the Center for Midlife Science for the journal Women’s Midlife Health.
The webinars will take place on Oct. 6 and Oct. 28 and feature papers in an upcoming special thematic issue in this journal on racism and midlife health.
Oct. 6, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.: Register for Zoom link.
- This is Our Lane: Talking with Patients about Racism with Michelle S. Diop, M.D., Sc.M., and Sascha N. Murillo, M.D., both from the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School.
- Structural Racism and the Impact on Incarcerated Midlife Women with Juana Hutchinson-Colas, M.D., Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
- Moderators: Sherri-Ann M. Burnett-Bowie, M.D., M.P.H., Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School; and Gloria Bachmann, M.D., Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Oct. 28: 4 p.m. – 5 p.m.: Register for Zoom link.
- Disparities in Reproductive Aging and Midlife Health between Black and White women: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) with Tené T. Lewis, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology, Emory University; and Siobán D. Harlow, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology, Michigan Medicine
- Taking Action to Advance the Study of Race and Ethnicity: The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) with Shawna Follis, Ph.D., M.S., Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; Monik C. Jiménez, Sc.D., S.M., FAHA, Harvard Medical School and T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and Lorena Garcia, M.P.H., Dr.P.H., Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis School of Medicine.
- Moderators: Sherri-Ann M. Burnett-Bowie, M.D., M.P.H., Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School; and Gloria Bachmann, M.D., Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Sponsored by: Women’s Midlife Health, Center for Midlife Science at the University of Michigan, Massachusetts General Hospital Department if Medicine Diversity and Inclusion Board.
