How can we work to establish a more equitable future? In this May 3, 2021, Prioritizing Equity panel, health leaders discuss why advancing health equity must require sharing power through effective alliances with those who have experienced marginalization and injustice across generations.
Panel:
• jewel bush—Chief of external affairs, Girl Trek
• Leseliey Welch, MPH, MBA—Co-founder and executive director, Birth Detroit; co-founder and co-director, Birth Center Equity
Guest moderator: Diana Derige, DrPH—Director, health equity strategy & development, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
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0:00 Introduction
2:03 How Birth Detroit is advancing maternal health equity
3:56 Girl Trek's work to advance health equity
6:46 How can organized medicine support health equity work?
9:58 The role of midwives in improving birth outcomes for people of color
12:47 Birth Center Equity
13:56 Sharing power and building diverse coalitions
17:56 How has COVID-19 impacted your work?
20:36 The Birth Equity Fund's role in building a vibrant community birth infrastructure
27:46 Closing remarks
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