Sunday March 8 for Community Conversations: Sister to Sister
Lissa Galluccio
Come join us for a lively Community Conversation Exploring Health Issues Affecting BlackWomen with Health Care Experts of Color.Please add your voice to our ongoing conversation on black women's, family and communityhealth Help us build a vibrant and dynamic health community.
Bus #47; Red Line (Central Square); Green Line B (3rd BU stop)
- Rigged systems: Barriers to Achieving Health Equity
- Protecting Ourselves, Our Children, Our Families, Our Community
- Risk and Resiliency
- Counteracting the Impact of Racism:
- Building a Culture of Health
- Crafting an Effective Health Community
Camara Phyllis Jones (MD, MPH, PhD) is a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on naming, measuring, and addressing the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation. She is currently the 2019-2020 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. But being a Radcliffe Fellow is actually her second “stint” at Harvard. She was an Assistant Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1994 to 2000 before being recruited to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she was a Medical Officer for more than fourteen years. Her home is still in Atlanta, where she is an Adjunct Professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Jones is well-known for her allegories on “race” and racism, teaching stories which illuminate topics that are otherwise difficult for many Americans to understand or discuss. During her 2015-2016 tenure as President of the American Public Health Association, she launched that Association on a National Campaign Against Racism with three tasks: name racism, ask “How is racism operating here?”, and organize and strategize to act.
Robin Reed (MD) is an internal medicine physician whose career has been focused on primary care, public health and community service. She received her Bachelors in Psychology from Stanford University and her Doctor of Medicine from New York University. Her training began at Columbia University’s Harlem Hospital Center in NYC, and led to her clinic position at Shattuck Hospital, a state-run safety net hospital in Boston, founded in the 1950’s to provide care for poor, uninsured, homeless, and other underserved populations. The twenty years at Shattuck included leadership roles including Director of Ambulatory Medicine, Liaison to Mattapan Community Health Center (a clinic that serves primary Haitian Americans), and ultimately Chief of Internal Medicine. Dr. Reed has also served as a Site Medical Director at a medium security state prison and a pre-release center. In that role, her focus was on health improvement and education for inmates soon to return to the community. Preventing recidivism by supporting medical and mental health for job maintenance in the community is the central underpinning for promoting wellness for inmates. Dr. Reed believes that health education is vital for all. For her this means teaching the next generation of health providers. She has been the Medical Director and Program Director at Northeastern University Physician Assistant (PA) Program, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University PA Program. It also means being a community health educator. She has given numerous talks to high school students, churches, and is currently a regular panelist for Community Conversations, a monthly women’s health circle. Topics range from the typical women’s health issues to community advocacy to self care with integrative medicine to violence in its various forms. She is the cofounder of The Wellness Collaborative (TWC), a nonprofit that provides an interdisciplinary think thank for best practices in health and wellness care for communities that suffer disparate health outcomes. TWC holds its a signature community forums in Roxbury Center, and offers programs and consultations for individuals, other non-profits, local businesses and healthy care systems.
Jeanette Adele Callahan (MD) is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and General Pediatrician at Cambridge Health Alliance with a special interest in the use of complementary medicine in the treatment of Autism and Attention Deficit Disorder. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed the MGH for Children's Residency Program. Dr. Callahan is the Medical Director of the Justice Resource Institute Northeast Health Service Unit which provides primary health care to detained and committed youth in the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. She is cofounder of the non-profit The Wellness Collaborative, Inc, an inter-disciplinary collective that works together to provide education, insight and best practices promoting sustainable personal and community health, wellness and resilience. Her volunteer work has taken her to South Africa, Brazil and Ghana where she provides pediatric consultations and direct care. In her role as a community activist in the areas of affordable housing, criminal justice, healthcare and education reform, Dr. Callahan serves on the Boards of The Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, Urban Edge and Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center.
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