Promoting a Culture of Health through Racial Healing and Transformation

In America, countless individuals and communities of color experience a heavier concentration of health risks and worse health outcomes than their white counterparts. Low birth weights, infant mortality, affordable housing, access to health care, food security, higher exposure to air pollution, contaminated water, lead poisoning, police violence, the list of inequities goes on.  January 27th, I’ll be speaking with Dr. Gail Christopher about her decades-long efforts to address these and other disparities across the nation and Alaska’s particular challenges and opportunities to acheive a high quality of health for all.

Dr. Christopher’s work focuses on the relationship between racial inequity and disparities of environmental health and justice. Consequently, racial healing and transformation of existing beliefs, policies, and practices play central roles as solutions. Dr. Christopher’s most recent work with the National Collaborative for Health Equity also provides communities and organizations research-based roadmaps and data-driven benchmarks to guide their efforts to reimagine healthier communities and ‘undo the health consequences of racism’. This webinar will be a conversational interview format, so you’re invited to send along questions prior to the 27th. I hope you can join us for this important conversation.