PriHD Research Carolina Seminars

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Health Disparities: Healthcare Delivery in the Age of COVID-19

This interdisciplinary Seminar will hold intensive and collaborative sessions focused on health outcome and health delivery problems resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Our main research topic is health disparities in healthcare delivery and how the COVID-19 pandemic shapes systems and impacts resources, including human resources. Our main product from these collaborative interdisciplinary and multi-organizational work groups of health disparities researchers and students will be a focused grant proposal aimed at examining the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on care delivery and home health caregivers’ own health outcomes.

Pleas register for the seminar here (https://go.unc.edu/prihdcovid). All seminars will be virtual and will have accompanying information and resources provided through Sakai.

Direct Care Workforce Job Quality and the Impact of COVID-19
- October 20, 2020 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
- Robert Espinoza, Vice President of Policy, PHI

Health Disparity Issues Faced by Home Health Workers since the COVID-19 Pandemic
- November 17, 2020 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
- Maddie Sterling, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

For more information or to join the PriHD listserv, send an email to our program at healthdisparities@email.unc.edu

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Health Equity

This is the second academic year of funding for this seminar. Our previous year goals will carry forward this year with some additions and improvements. We still aim to become acquainted with researchers and students who are involved in or interested in health disparities; to understand how to build and refine the Program in Health Disparities Research at the Sheps Center based on interaction with seminar attendees and their identified needs; and to provide a space for researchers and students to present (and solicit feedback) on past and current research to a group of peers.

The general theme of this academic year’s seminar is on the impact structures have on health disparities.

Please register for the seminar here (https://go.unc.edu/prihd). All seminars will be virtual and will have accompanying information and resources provided through Sakai.

Structural Racism and Health Disparities

- September 22, 2020 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
- Dr. Cene and Sharita R. Thomas, MPP

Please watch the following TED Talk (https://youtu.be/GNhcY6fTyBM) beforehand

Transportation Equity, the Disabled, and Health Disparities

- October 27, 2020 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
- Abigail Cochran, Post Doctoral Research Associate, UNC

Teaching Journal Articles- Focus on Health Disparities Research Articles
- To be rescheduled
- Sharita R. Thomas, Research Associate, UNC Sheps Center

For more information or to join the PriHD listserv, please ssend an email to our program at healthdisparities@email.unc.edu