Thursday, April 25, 12noon, Kirwan Institute, Conference Room 101, 33 W. 11th Ave. [this event will also be occurring via Zoom]

One goal of most, if not all, public health departments during and after a pandemic should be to decrease health inequities in service and to improve long-term engagement and collaboration with racial/ethnic communities in their jurisdictions. This study reports on the external relationships with the racial/ethnic communities in a large mid-western municipality.

There has been and continues to be a striking dichotomy in the large urban centers of the Midwest; while these cities might be considered prosperous, and well-educated, and progressive, some of these urban centers continue to present with the highest rates of chronic health conditions by census tract in the country.

This study that evaluated the COVID-19 response in Black communities in a large midwestern urban center revealed several latent constructs that are operative and concordant in census tracts at risk for disparate health outcomes related to COVID-19 schema. The data demonstrates that the ability of health departments to utilize contemporary methodologies and analytics will facilitate identification of census tracts where differential adverse outcomes coexist.

Speakers:

• Dr. Darryl Hood, Professor and Dean’s Fellow Division of Environmental Health Sciences and College of Public Health at The Ohio State University

• Dr. Karen Patricia Williams, Distinguished Professor of Women’s Health, Martha S. Pitzer Center for Women, Children, and Youth at The Ohio State University.

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Hosted by Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University.