Date & Time: Tuesday, May 26, 2026, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences 955 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203 Dozoretz Auditorium, Room 2220
Intended Audience: Open Event (registration required)
This event challenges the dominant framing of “health equity” as a technical effort to manage disparities through representation and incremental reform. Instead, it asks a more urgent question: what are the systems producing these inequities in the first place, and why do they remain intact?
Bringing together voices across environmental justice, housing, and urban inequality, this conversation critically interrogates the systems that produce structural inequities. The panelists will explore how housing instability, environmental exposure, healthcare commodification, labor precarity, and state abandonment shape health outcomes across Black, immigrant, and rural communities.
The keynote speaker is John Washington, a national tenant organizer, who will ground the conversation in the material realities of housing, displacement, and abandonment. His talk will illustrate how health is produced through the conditions of where and how people live.
Sponsored by: Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Community Healthy Speaks
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Date & Time: Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 9:00am - 4:30pm
Location: Native American Community Services (NACS) 1005 Grant Street, Buffalo, NY 14207
Intended Audience: Open Event (registration required)
Examining historical trauma, residual consequences, and opportunities to move beyond continuing dynamics, featuring a screening of “The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” with facilitated discussion. Lunch will be provided and seating is limited. Please click here to register for this Native American Cultural Competency event.
Sponsored by: Native American Community Services (NACS)