Special Event, 1619 to 2019: Confronting the Legacy of Slavery for Health Equity in Baltimore and across the United States
Confronting the Legacy of Slavery for Health Equity in Baltimore and across the United States
DECEMBER 11, 2019, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health hosted a forum to examine the complex history of slavery and its impact on health equity in Baltimore, Maryland, and across the United States.
The event was co-hosted by the Center for Health Equity and Urban Health Institute at Johns Hopkins University; Office of Public Health Practice and Training and SOURCE at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Video recording of the event is available below.
1619;2019 Confronting Slavery and Health Equity panelists get introduced by Dean of Bloomberg School of Public Health, Ellen Mackenzie, in Baltimore, December 11, 2019. Photo credit: Jonathan Suen
There were two panel discussions: The first focused on the historical legacy of slavery for health equity, and the second focused on Baltimore.
PANEL #1: EMBODYING THE HEALTH LEGACIES OF SLAVERY
Panelists
Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
Elizabeth O'Brien, Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Deirde Cooper Owens, Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Alexandre White, Assistant Professor of Sociology and the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Moderator: Jeremy A. Greene, William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
PANEL #2: SLAVERY AND HEALTH EQUITY IN BALTIMORE
Panelists
Janice V. Bowie, PhD, Professor, Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Rev. Debra Hickman, President/CEO, Sisters Together And Reaching, Inc (STAR)
Lawrence Jackson, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History, Johns Hopkins University
Bishop Douglas Miles, Pastor, Koinonia Baptist Church, Co-chairman, Baltimoreans United in Leadership (BUILD)
Karen Kruse Thomas, Historian, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Moderator: Lisa A. Cooper, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Health Equity, Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health
EVENT RESOURCES