The Gender, Equity, and Human Rights Team in the Office of the Director-General, WHO/HQ, is pleased to invite you to the Webinar on “Health inequities and racial and ethnicity-based discrimination: what COVID-19 is teaching us” that will take place on 25 MARCH 2021 from 13:00-14:00 pm CET. This Webinar is part of the “WHO Global Webinars on the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on Equity and the Social Determinants of Health” and it also constitutes part of the knowledge exchange events being convened for “World Health Day 2021” on Health Equity.
The purpose of this Webinar is to share perspectives on the impact of racial and ethnicity-based discrimination on health and health inequities, as well as what is being and can be done to address these inequities now and in building back better. This Webinar is open to representatives of Governments, academia, and research institutes, multilateral system partners, and members of international professional organizations, civil society, and community groups working on racial and ethnicity-based discrimination and equity-oriented and rights-based approaches to COVID-19 response and recovery.
Programme
Greeting by the Chair Princess Nothemba Simelela,
Assistant Director General Strategic Priorities, WHO
Understanding the pathways through which racial and ethnicity based discrimination influences health equity, and potential action areas to address it Mary T. Bassett, Director, François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.
A commitment towards eliminating systemic racism in health and research: presenting the purpose and mission of the Lancet’s Group for Racial Equality ( GRacE )
Pamela Das and Mandip Aujla, The Lancet
Evidence on COVID-19 related health inequities by ethnicity and intersecting factors and key issues for equity in vaccination by Manish Pareek, University of Leicester
Training health professionals to understand implicit bias linked to racial and ethnicity based discrimination, and the implications for health equity
Kim Yu, MD, FAAFP Chair, World Organization of Family Doctors Special Interest Group in Health Equity
Engaging civil society and communities and other entry points for addressing the impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous populations and Afro descendants in the Americas
Anna Coates, Chief, Office of Equity, Gender, and Cultural Diversity, PAHO/WHO; and Myrna Cunningham, Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean (FILAC)
Closing remarks by the Chair
View the presentations
- Pathways to Racial and Ethnicity-based Health Inequities: What COVID-19 is Teaching US
- The Lancet Group for Racial Equality (GRacE)
- Training Health Professionals to Understand Implicit Bias linked to Racial and Ethnicity Based Discrimination, and the Implications for Health Equity
- Engaging civil society and communities and other entry points for addressing the impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous populations and Afrodescendants in the Americas
Recording is available here
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