Confronting Racial & Ethnic Disparities with Dr. Deidra Crews, University of Maryland Webinar

As the COVID-19 crisis was peaking on the east coast in May, awareness that the pandemic was hitting racial and ethnic minority communities especially hard was still only just starting to be fully documented.  Johns Hopkins University Professor of Medicine Dr. Deirdra Crews, who is also the Associate Vice Chair for Diversity and Inclusion in the Department of Medicine and the Associate Director for Research Development at the Center for Health Equity, was one of the researchers raising early alarms about the inequitable impacts of the pandemic. 

On May 1, 2020, Dr. Crews was a panelist on a webinar hosted by the University of Maryland School of Public Health entitled “The Color of COVID-19 in Maryland: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities During a Global Pandemic.”  This webinar, which brought together Maryland political leaders, policy experts and researchers, explored how systemic inequalities in access to health care and social opportunity created conditions that resulted in disproportionate infections and deaths among minority communities in Baltimore and beyond. 

You can watch the recording of the webinar on the University of Maryland Facebook Live Channel.

OTHER RESOURCES

  • Follow + Connect with Dr. Deidra Crews on Twitter

  • You can also visit her Individual Accomplishments page on our website here

  • Watch the lecture recording

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