Online forum will explore racial equity and anti-racism on July 14

The UB Community Health Equity Research Institute and Buffalo Center for Health Equity will sponsor a live, online forum on July 14 titled “Why Racial Equity and Anti-Racism?” Running from 1 to 3 p.m. (via Zoom), the forum will feature noted speakers and panelists from Western New York and beyond.

Featured speaker Davarian L. Baldwin, PhD, a leading scholar and social theorist of urban America, will present a talk titled “Inequality is a Comorbidity!: Mapping the Structures of Racial Disparity in Today’s Crisis Cities.” Baldwin is a Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

A panel discussion and open questions will follow, featuring:

• Rita Hubbard-Robinson, CEO, NeuWater & Associates, LLC; Buffalo Center for Health Equity
• Rev. George F. Nicholas, Convener, African American Health Equity Task Force; Buffalo Center for Health Equity; Pastor, Lincoln Memorial United Methodist Church, Buffalo
• Heather Orom, PhD, Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and Associate Professor, UB School of Public Health and Health Professions
• Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., PhD, Professor, UB School of Architecture and Planning

Welcoming remarks will be given by UB Community Health Equity Research Institute Director Timothy F. Murphy, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and Director, UB Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI).

Register now to watch the forum live via Zoom on July 14 at https://ub.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4a4fc335-9ac0-4524-8d4e-abf800f0fb3e.

For more information, see UB's news release promoting the forum and a preview in The Buffalo News.