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COVID-19 and Political Economy, Part II: Investing in a Collective Future

Wednesday, December 8, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
55 W. 125th Street
New York, NY 10027, United States
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Join us for a webinar on the weaknesses that structural racism creates in the U.S.’s approaches to healthcare and public health.

In this session, we discuss the latest article we wrote for American Federation of Teachers Health Care Journal Fall issue, about the weaknesses that structural racism creates in our nation, particularly in our approaches to healthcare and public health. We try to make sense of the racial nature of our economy and of our disinvestment in public goods (including our political struggle to provide healthcare coverage for all). We explore our society’s dramatically different reactions to the crack (Black) versus opioid (White) epidemics and our colonialist journey to relying on Filipino nurses. We explain that both are rooted in racial capitalism, which systematically undervalues the labor, health, and lives of people of color. Finally we point to a path forward so that the cascading crises of the COVID-19 pandemic can be avoided in the future.

Objectives of webinar

  1. Understand the racialized nature of the American economy
  2. Understand the consequence of such racial economy, in our health and healthcare
  3. Discuss recommendations for how to begin solving our longstanding challenges

About the speakers

Robin MoonDr. J. Robin Moon, DPH, MPH, MIA is co-founder and chief strategy officer of sana solutions LLC. She is a social epidemiologist and a seasoned public health and executive management professional with 25 years of experience in private (corporate/entrepreneurial and non-profit/philanthropy) and public (government and academia) sectors. She brings her diverse experience into the domains of public health, healthcare, and social welfare system development. Her areas of expertise include Medicaid and value-based payment reform, care delivery system integration, network management, business process engineering, organizational strategy development, quality improvement, evidence-based practice development and evaluation, and health equity strategy. Dr. Moon holds a Doctor of Public Health from Harvard University, a Master of Public Health and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Chicago. She is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at City University of New York (CUNY) School of Public Health, an Adjunct Professor at CUNY School of Medicine, and a faculty member of CUNY Institute for Health Equity.

Zinzi BaileyDr. Zinzi Bailey, ScD, MSPH is a social epidemiologist focused on the health impacts of and policy solutions for structural and institutional discrimination, especially at the intersection of public health and criminal justice. She is also interested in the use of data and indicators in policy and management. She is currently Research Assistant Professor in Department of Medical Oncology at the University of Miami Miller School Of Medicine. From 2015-2017, she was the Director of Research and Evaluation at the Center for Health Equity in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Prior to her position at DOHMH, she was a Montreal Health Equity Research Consortium postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Health and Social Policy at McGill University. She received her Doctor of Science degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Harvard School of Public Health and served as a Research Fellow with the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School (2011-2014). Dr. Bailey received her Master of Science in Public Health with a concentration in Global Epidemiology from Emory University, conducting research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the (then potential) implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV/AIDS prevention, especially as it related to social network theory, health equity measures, and ethics. Dr. Bailey’s previous research, while completing her A.B. in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, focused on Afro-Brazilian political mobilization.

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