Health Equities and Racial Disparities: The Pandemic Within a Pandemic
When aƵ faculty panelconvenedonline on Thursday, July 30to discuss, “Health Equities and Racial Disparities, the Pandemic within a Pandemic,”ٳtouched onways thatunderrepresentedcommunitiescan make inroads inprofessional medical fields.The expert panel featuredDrs. Joy Howell, Vanessa Rouzier and Monika Safford with the conversation moderated byDr. Said Ibrahim.
Among themareprograms that support pre-medical students, such as the. The six-week programgives25 premedical students insights into the field of medicine, including issues that greatly affect the health of traditionally underserved groups.
Students conduct laboratory and clinical research, attend lectures, shadow physicians, and receive information aboutthe medical school admissions process. The program also offerscounseling on financial planning for medical school and how to examine the financial aid package.
t's important to expose young people to successful role models in medicine, to make them comfortable with their academic environment,” Said Ibrahim,MD, MPH, MBA, senior associate dean for diversity and inclusion at Ƶ.
The Traveler’s programhas been successful, Dr. Ibrahim said.
“Eٲ-three percentof[participants]have been attending medical schools,” he explained.“NԱٲ-six percentof them have graduated from medical schools.…It's programs like that, that we meet throughout the country. I said that we can increase the representation of minorities in medical schools and therefore diversify our medical workforce.”
To listen to the entire discussion about racial disparities in healthcare, please watch the video below.
To learn more about Weill Cornell’s work in this area and the activities of our faculty, please visit these links:
- Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Ƶ, recently wrote about the need for more Black doctors in.
- Read more about the efforts of Drs. Howell and Safford to cure the “.”
- and other Weill Cornell faculty are on the front lines against COVID-19 and other infectious diseases in the developing world.
about Ƶ’s work in diversity and inclusion.