When Theory Meets Reality: The Fight to Eliminate Health Inequities

Associate Vice President and Founding Director

Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships

School of Arts and Sciences

University of Pennsylvania

Director of Surgical Education

Research Assistant Professor

Department of Surgery

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

University at Buffalo

SUNY Distinguished Professor

Department of Medicine

Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Director, Community Health Equity Research Institute

University at Buffalo

This workshop focuses on forging strategies designed to eliminate race-based inequities in the Buffalo-Niagara Region. This workshop will function as a brainstorming session on strengthening the movement to eliminate health inequities in the region. This workshop conceptualizes "health disparities" as "health inequities," spawned by systemic structural racism. The workshop will discuss the importance of how the "health inequity problem" is framed and brainstorm strategies that we can use to eliminate health inequities. This workshop is the platform for discussing ideas for bringing about "real" change in the healthcare system.