Session 3: A Call to Action for Health Equity
Recorded on April 22, 2021
In this final session, we discuss how the modern-day Medicare for All and Black Lives Matter movements can contribute to the vision of health equity for all, and the valuable role played by FQHCs in anti-racism and health equity efforts. Watch now to learn about partnerships and initiatives created to advance the health equity agenda, and how a focus on community health will lead to better health for all.
Speakers
Benjamin Day
Ben Day was hired as Director of Healthcare-NOW in February 2013, prior to which he served as the Executive Director of Mass-Care, the Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care, for 8 years. Ben has published a range of peer-reviewed articles and reports on healthcare reform, including "State Health Reform Flatlines" (2008), "Why Has the Press Failed Us in Reporting on Health Care Reform?" (2009), The Massachusetts Model of Health Reform in Practice (2011), “The Affordable Care Act and Medical Loss Ratios” (2015), and others. Prior to his work at Mass-Care, Ben's background was in labor education and labor research, when he co-edited The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History (2009).
Claire-Cecile Pierre, MD
Claire-Cecile Pierre, MD is the Chief Medical Officer at Harbor Health Services and the Executive Director of the Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Global Health Entrepreneurship at Babson College. She is also an instructor in global health and social medicine, director of the Program in Global Health Systems Strengthening and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, and instructor at Cambridge Health Alliance. Her research interests are health care workforce reinforcement through global partnerships; strengthening health systems across the post disaster periods (humanitarian, recovery, etc.); public health informatics; and models of leadership for continued community engagement in public health planning.
Co-Moderators
Deanna Belleny, MPH, RDN
Deanna Belleny, MPH, RDN is the Program Manager of the Harvard Medical School Program in Global Primary Care and Social Change and the Assistant Director of the Systems Transformation team at the Center for Primary Care of Harvard Medical School. She is co-founder and Director of Programs at Diversify Dietetics, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the racial and ethnic diversity in the field of nutrition. She received her Master’s in Public Health from the University of Texas School of Public Health after completing her Bachelor’s degree in Human Nutrition and Foods at the University of Houston.
LaShyra "Lash" Nolen
Lash Nolen is a writer, activist, and second-year medical student at Harvard Medical School where she is serving as student council president of her class, the first documented black woman to hold this leadership position. As a rising leader in medicine, she was named the youngest 2020 National Minority Quality Forum “40 under 40 Leader in Minority Health”, a “2020 Young Futurist” by The Root Magazine, and the 2021 recipient of the American Medical Student Association’s “Racial Justice in Medicine” Award. She is also a co-host for the Clinical Problem Solvers Anti-racism in Medicine Podcast and recently founded, We Got Us, a grassroots collective of college and health professional students working to bring access to the COVID vaccine for Black communities.
