SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
DETAILS
Registration is required. Attendees will be admitted to the Zoom room 5 minutes before each panel session begins. There will be one program link for the entire day, so attendees can come and go as schedules permit.
PANEL ONE: EDITORS’ DISCUSSION 9:00AM – 10:00AM
PANEL TWO: NAME INEQUITY 10:30AM – 12:00PM
PANEL THREE: LOCATE DISPARITY 1:00PM – 2:30PM
PANEL FOUR: ACT FOR CHANGE 3:00PM – 5:00PM
For technical support, contact Diana Wrenn Rapp, Assistant Director Atlanta Global Studies Center Georgia State University dwrenn1@gsu.edu.
Event Co-Sponsors
PANEL PRESENTERS
PANEL I: EDITORS
Introduction: Race, Gender, and Public Health: Social Justice and Wellness Work.
Co-Editors Stephanie Y. Evans, Sarita Davis, Leslie Hinkson, and Deanna Wathington
Afterword, Jasmine Ward, President Black Ladies in Public Health
PANEL II: NAME INEQUITY
CHAPTER 1
Reversing the Dehumanization of Black Women
Tiffany D. Thomas and Mandy Hill
CHAPTER 2
An Overview of The Past, Present, and Future of Black Women in Health Policy
Rebekah Israel Cross, Brittney Butler, and Mya L. Roberson
CHAPTER 3
The Maternal Mortality Crisis in the Black Community
Jovonni R. Spinner, Sheila Carrette, Joylene John-Sowah
CHAPTER 4
Promoting Self-Care and Awareness of Stress, the Strong Black Woman Schema, and Mental Health among African-American Women
Dakota King-White, Kelly Yu-Hsin Liao, and Elice E. Rogers
PANEL III: LOCATE DISPARITY
CHAPTER 5
The Black Women’s Health Study: Working Together to Improve the Health of Black Women
Traci N. Bethea and Yvette C. Cozier
CHAPTER 6
The ‘Swelling Wave of Oppression’: An Intersectional Study to Evaluate Health Challenges of Self-Identified Black Queer Women in the American South
Jayme Canty
CHAPTER 7
Rural Black Maternal Health in the Age of Digital Deserts
Alisa Valentin and Christy Gamble Hines
CHAPETER 8
Pouring from a Leaking Cup: Informal Family Caregivers in the Black Community
Esther Piervil
PANEL IV: ACT FOR CHANGE
CHAPTER 9
Black Women and Public Health in the UK
Jenny Douglas
CHAPTER 10
Enhancing Clinical Practice to include Biomedical HIV Prevention for Black Women
Mandy Hill, Ndidiamaka N. Amutah-Onukagha, Charlene A. Flash, Kelli Joiner, Folake Olayinka, and Bisola Ojikutu
CHAPTER 11
Am I My Sister’s Mentor?: Why Mentoring Underrepresented Minority Medical and Public Health Faculty Can Improve the Health of Black Women
Andrea Anderson, Judy Washington, and Joedrecka S. Brown Speights
CHAPTER 12
Stress and Black Women’s Health: Origins, Coping Strategies and Implications for Policy and Practice
Portia A. Jackson Preston, Leslie Bronner, and Yvonne Bronner
CHAPTER 13
Alice Coltrane-Turiyasangitananda’s Yogic Journey: Creativity, Community and Caretaking
Tamara Y. Jeffries, Santiba D. Campbell, and Yasmeen Long
CHAPTER 14
When Black Scholars Embrace Ourselves in our Research, We Reclaim our Power
Sarita Davis
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