2023-24 Leadership Series | Healthcare: The Equity Problem
Open to Fellows, the LGC Class of 2024 and Leadership Series Partners only. (Leadership Series Partners and the Class of 2024 are pre-registered for each session and not required to register here.)
Black Chicagoans have a shorter life expectancy than their white counterparts, and that gap is particularly stark on the South and West Sides. Racial and economic segregation has resulted in a community where residents lack access to hospitals and health centers and experience disproportionately high rates of economic stress, infant mortality, and chronic disease. The West Side United collaborative and other local initiatives are seeking to remove the intertwined social, economic and environmental barriers that affect residents’ health. Our expert panel will discuss how cross-sector collaborations and place-based strategies, such as the recent opening of Thresholds Health, are creating solutions to decrease health disparities and close the life expectancy gap of Chicago's South and West Side residents.
This virtual conversation will be moderated by Brenda Battle, RN, BSN, MBA (Daniel Burnham Fellow), Senior Vice President of Community Health Transformation and Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer at UChicago Medicine. Brenda will be joined by speakers Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, PhD (LGC Fellow since 2018), Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Psychology) at the Northwestern Medicine Asher Center for the Study and Treatment of Depressive Disorders; Dr. Garth Walker, MD, MPH (LGC Fellow since 2021), Chief Medical Officer at Rush University and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Rush University System for Health; and Kimberly Hobson, Chief Executive Officer of South Side Healthy Community Organization.
In keeping with our tradition of unplugged conversations, sessions will not be available for anyone other than registrants. They will not be publicly broadcast and will not be replayed on public media channels. Sessions will be recorded for archival purposes and provided to registrants only, following each session.
Each virtual session will be captioned. If you require an accommodation to fully participate in the series, please contact the LGC Team at: info@lgcchicago.org
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