Welcome to Partners for Advancing Health Equity, a podcast bringing together people working on the forefront of addressing issues of health justice. Here we create a space for in-depth conversations about what it will take to create the conditions that allow all people to live their healthiest life possible. Partners for Advancing Health Equity is led by Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, is a part of the Tulane Institute for Innovation in Health Equity and is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Episode 6: Pathways to Health Equity: Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.
2023
In this episode of the series, Pathways to Health Equity, we speak with Louis Sullivan, M.D., former Secretary of Health and Human Services under President George H.W. Bush, and the founding dean and director of the School of Medicine at Morehouse College. We discuss his life experiences and how they influenced his pursuit of a career in medicine, his work to establish institutions to improve opportunities for minority communities, and his time as HHS Secretary, where he led several efforts to reduce health disparities. He is also author of several books, including Let’s Fight it Out Here: America’s Black Health Professionals and the Legislative Battleground. The Story of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (with David Chanoff, Johns Hopkins University Press)
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Episode 5: Pathways to Health Equity: Kyriakos S. Markides, Ph.D.
2023 In this episode of the series Pathways to Health Equity, we speak with Kyriakos (Kokos) Markides, PhD, the Annie and John Gnitzinger Distinguished Professor of Aging and Professor at the School of Public and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and Editor of the Journal of Aging and Health. We discuss his immigration to the United States from Cyprus as a child, and how his life journey led him to the study of aging and health issues in the Mexican American population as well as his development of the hypothesis, the “Hispanic Epidemiological Paradox”. Full bio: https://www.utmb.edu/spph/kyriakos-s-markides-phd Papers discussed in this episode:
Episode 4: Pathways to Health Equity: Dr. Paula Braveman
August 25, 2022
In this episode of the series, Pathways to Health Equity, we speak with Dr. Paula Braveman, Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Founding Director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), about her life experiences and their influence on her path in the field as well as her thoughts on the past, present, and future state of health equity. For more than 25 years, she has studied and published extensively on health equity and the social determinants of health. Full bio: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/paula.braveman
Papers discussed in this episode:
- Systemic and Structural Racism: definitions, examples, health damages, and approaches to dismantling. Health Affairs 2022
- Paula A Braveman, Shiriki Kumanyika, Jonathan Fielding, Thomas LaVeist, Luisa N Borrell, Ron Manderscheid, Adewale Troutman. Health disparities and Health Equity: The Issue is Justice. Am J Public Health 2011
Episode 3: Pathways to Health Equity: Sherman James, PhD.
July 25, 2022
In this episode of the series, Pathways to Health Equity, we speak with Dr. Sherman James, the Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, about growing up in the Deep South, firsthand experiences during the civil rights movement, and other circumstances that put him on the path of health justice, establishing him as a leader and innovator in the field. Full bio: https://sanford.duke.edu/profile/sherman-james/
Papers discussed in this episode:
Tyroler, H. A., and S. A. James. “Blood pressure and skin color.” American Journal of Public Health 68, no. 12 (December 1978): 1170–72.
James, S. A. “John Henryism and the health of African-Americans.” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 18, no. 2 (June 1994): 163–82.
Episode 2: Next Steps in Advancing Health Equity
June 21, 2022
From our inaugural webinar held March 8, 2002, we hear from national cross-sector thought-leaders as we discuss next steps in health equity practice and policy across research, community, and funders. Hosted by Thomas LaVeist, Dean, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity. Panelists in this episode:
- Sharrelle Barber, Director, The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements, and Population Health Equity at the Dornsife School of Public Health
- Sinsi Hernández-Cancio, Vice President for Health Justice, National Partnership for Women and Families
- Cara James, President and CEO, Grantmakers In Health
- Al Richmond, Executive Director, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
Episode 1: Introducing Our Health Equity Research Learning Collaborative
June 21, 2022
From our inaugural webinar held March 8, 2002, we introduce Partners for Advancing Health Equity, a research learning collaborative designed to spark discussion, share learning, foster collaboration, and facilitate resource exchange for the promotion of action-oriented health equity research, practice, and policies. It also includes the current state of health inequities, and why we must identify next steps necessary to improve the lives of those impacted by social injustices.
Presented by:
Thomas LaVeist, Dean, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity
Andrew Anderson, Associate Director, Partners for Advancing Health Equity, Assistant Professor, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
For More Information
Contact: partners4he@tulane.edu
partners4healthequity.org
Become a Member
Partners for Advancing Health Equity invites everyone from all walks of life and experiences to drive the advancement of our common goal – a society where everyone has the ability to live the healthiest life possible.
Anyone interested and/or working in the field of health equity is welcome to apply to be an active member.
There are no member fees of any kind.
Partners for Advancing Health Equity promotes innovation in health equity by facilitating active collaboration between people and organizations to inform and harmonize research to advance actionable and sustainable solutions. The Collaborative is led by Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and is part of the Tulane Institute for Innovation in Health Equity.