NAACP Ethnic & Racial Healthcare Bias discussion - Sat 2/20

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE​

Contact: Kevin P. Henry
NAACP Health Committee
khcreativemedia@gmail.com
206 954-8024

Examining racially-based bias and disparities in health care is the focus of a panel discussion on Saturday, Feb. 20, from 10 am - 12 pm, presented by the Seattle King County NAACP Health Committee.

Log on information for attendees:
https://gonzaga.zoom.us/j/95191029817
Meeting ID: 951 9102 9817
Password: 207282  

Attendees of the event will learn how racial disparities, inequities and systemic discrimination continues to affect BIPOC communities. Also discussed will be solutions to these issues and a Q&A session with subject experts will conclude the event.

Featured Speakers

Michele Andrasik, PhD.
Director, Social & Behavioral Sciences and Community Engagement, HIV Vaccine Trials Network Senior Staff Scientist, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutch Clinical Affiliate Professor, Department of Global Health, University of Washington.

Dr. Cyril Engmann, MD, FAAP

• Senior Director of Quality and Program Impact, and Institutional Official at PATH, an international health non-profit organization driving transformative innovation that has saved lives in more than 70 countries. 
• Attending Neonatologist & Joint Professor
  Departments of Pediatrics & Global Health. Schools of Medicine & Public Health, University of Washington & Seattle Children’s Hospital. 

“Mindful and community-based efforts are critical and necessary to ensure the equitable inclusion of BIPOC people in research efforts,“ says Dr. Andrasik.

“Ethnic and racial bias in healthcare remains endemic,” Dr. Engmann says.

Dr. Phyllis Gearring-Anderson, from the Seattle NAACP Health Committee, says, ”Unfortunately, prejudice and bias is a reality in the lives of people of color. Research has shown that many health care providers appear to have an inherent bias in terms of positive attitudes toward Whites and negative attitudes toward People of Color.”

For more information, contact health@seattlekingcountynaacp.org or visit our website https://www.seattlekingcountynaacp.org/health.html