BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fc8010c0217de8e72805c1a7dd041f44323 CATEGORIES:Committee Event SUMMARY:History, Hierarchy, Housing & Health Equity: The Throughline from Root to Realization DESCRIPTION:
About This Event:
When: April 29th, 2022 from 12:00 p
m - 1:00 pm MT
Where:
Online
Cost: Free to
All
History, Hierarchy, Housing and Health Eq uity: The Throughline from Root to Realization:
It hasn’t be en long since the discipline of Public Health began to consider environment conditions and social determinants of health in addition to individual cho ices and behavior. As more frameworks and strategies for health equity emer ge including naming differences between zip codes, they often lack historic al context as to the why. Why is it that populations in the same U.S. city or town have stark differences in experience and years of life based on whe re they live? How did we get here?
We are currently in this moment wh ere discussions and solutions around root causes of power imbalance such as racism and other forms of oppression, are emerging in reaction to the comp ilation of a pandemic, racial unrest, and political divide. However, still lacking is adequate education and truth that allows us to connect the dots between the history of root causes and the realities we face today.
C lear answers, succinct next steps, and the most elaborate tool kits we keep scrambling to find and create will not be effective using inaccurate infor mation. Achieving racial and health equity as a process and outcome will re quire so much more from us as individuals and institutions. Racialized heal th disparities have been a long-time Public Health challenge and have only widened as this country has advanced in medicine and technology. Why?
The path forward continues to be deeply layered, multi-complex and comes w ith discomfort. If optimal health is supposed to be a human right for ALL, it will demand honesty, humility, and humanity from us. It will take broad cross-sector collaboration across all levels while collectively centering t hose most impacted by our policies, practices, and the perpetuation of excl usion embedded in our cultural norms. This webinar may bring up more curios ity than a “cure” and you are invited to lean into it!
Resources arou nd the topic:
• Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap on NETFLIX (YouTube) https://youtu.be/Mqrhn8khGLM
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide by Meizhu L ui, Barbara Robles, et al.
• The Hidden Cost of Being African America n: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequalityby Thomas Shapiro
• Toxic Inequal ity: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future by Thomas Shapiro
Jannah Bierens is a Black biracial North Carolina native who uses feminine and gender non- conforming pronouns. As Founder and Principal of PHREEEDOM LLC, she consult s and facilitates dialogue around root causes of oppression, intersectional ity, and power imbalance for narrative shifting and systems change toward a dvancing racial and health equity. Jannah dreamed up PHREEEDOM (Public Heal th Racial Equity thru Exploration & Engagement to Dismantle Oppression for Movement) as her frustrations of “doing health equity” within instituti ons were continuously fueled by lack of historical analysis, intention, and specific expertise and leadership necessary for the advancement of anti-ra cist/oppressive practices.
With an undergraduate foundation in the st udy of Exercise Science, Mx. Bierens holds an M.P.H with graduate certifica tes in Health Management & Policy and Health Education & Promotion, in addition to their M.A. in Social Justice & Community Organizing. Ho wever, it is lived experience and upbringing by lessons filtered through ge nerations of Black superwomen, which have prepared them most for working wi th people and organizations collectively to get PHREEE.
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