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The Intersection: Where Anti-Racism and Healthcare Meet The Intersection
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The Intersection is where leaders in community advocacy and healthcare talk about creating anti-racist health systems. This podcast features real talk about topics that drive real action toward health equity.
Convened by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Intersection brings people together to share resources, inspiration, and ideas to improve healthcare for all.
Join the mailing list at MeetAtTheIntersection.org.
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Facts Tell, Stories Sell
How should those advancing anti-racism in healthcare talk about the work? An expert panel discusses this, and other community-submitted questions, before sharing personal stories of how they came to work in healthcare and community advocacy. Sinsi Hernández-Cancio (National Partnership for Women & Families) stresses the importance of storytelling. Shari Suchoff (Brooklyn Communities Collaborative) shares a powerful example engaging the community. Marshall Chin (University of Chicago) talks about framing equity-advancing programs amidst pushback on “DEI” efforts. Torian Easterling (One Brooklyn Health) reveals how "unprecedented collaboration" during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic gives him hope.
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The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent or the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. -
It Takes Two to Make a Thing Go Right
How do we form community relationships that go beyond the surface level? An expert panel gets real about the challenges of creating meaningful partnerships. Marshall Chin (University of Chicago) emphasizes the importance of hard discussions about power dynamics. Sinsi Hernández-Cancio (National Partnership for Women and Families) says that patients' distrust of health systems comes from personal experiences rather than paranoia. Shari Suckoff (Brooklyn Communities Collaborative) stresses that hospitals must leverage their power and invest in community projects. Torian Easterling (One Brooklyn Health) questions the assumptions hospitals make about their communities and demands that hospitals investigate their biases.
To stay in the loop on upcoming events, join the mailing list at MeetAtTheIntersection.org.
The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent or the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.