{"id":5981,"date":"2020-06-23T18:20:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T22:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/?p=5981"},"modified":"2020-06-25T09:11:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T13:11:28","slug":"addressing-racism-and-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/2020\/06\/23\/addressing-racism-and-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing Racism and COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-header custom_logo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/nephtc\/files\/2020\/06\/Systemic-Racism.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5990\" \/><\/div>\n<form class=\"form-vertical\" id=\"webinar_register_form\" action=\"javascript:;\" method=\"POST\" novalidate=\"novalidate\" autocomplete=\"off\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"webinar_topic\">\n<div class=\"form-group horizontal\">\n<p><label class=\"control-label\"><\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"controls\"><strong>Hot Topics \u2014 Addressing Racism and COVID-19<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"form-group horizontal\">\n<p><label class=\"control-label\">Description<\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"controls\">\n<p>New data confirm that COVID-19 is disproportionately and negatively impacting communities of color and exacerbating existing health inequities.<\/p>\n<p>In the June session of Hot Topics in Practice, Mat\u00edas Valenzuela, Equity Director, Public Health &#8211; Seattle &amp; King County and Director of COVID-19 Community Mitigation and Recovery, shares his team\u2019s efforts to uncover the root causes of these inequities and offers strategies for dismantling racism and supporting health in these times.<\/p>\n<p>Mat\u00edas will begin with a brief history of the health equity work at King County that has laid the foundation for their COVID-19 response. He will then discuss elements of their COVID-19 response that make it unique from previous emergency preparedness efforts, sharing new data and tools that support this work. The presentation will close with a conversation about the ways public health agencies can improve their systems and services to address structural racism and strengthen resilience in marginalized communities.<\/p>\n<p>Register today and join the discussion to center equity as this pandemic evolves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/washington.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/5315918061643\/WN_GmaQDQejSbiNMy2HeH2SwA\">Learn More<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Topics \u2014 Addressing Racism and COVID-19 Description New data confirm that COVID-19 is disproportionately and negatively impacting communities of color and exacerbating existing health inequities. In the June session of Hot Topics in Practice, Mat\u00edas Valenzuela, Equity Director, Public Health &#8211; Seattle &amp; King County and Director of COVID-19 Community Mitigation and Recovery, shares [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions\/5992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}