Education In Action: Addressing Healthcare Disparities in Our Communities

On Wednesday, October 21, 2020, please join us from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. ET for a panel discussion about healthcare disparities and effective ways that student-led communities can advocate for social change. 

Special Introduction by transplant survivor Jay Feinberg, CEO and Founder, Gift of Life Marrow Registry and moderated by Walter Bond, Former NBA Player and Leukemia Advocate. The panel will feature:

• David Lacks, Jr., Henrietta Lacks Family Speaker
• Ahmar Urooj Zaidi, MD, Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist, Sickle Cell Advocate
• Karen Weaver, PhD, Former Mayor of Flint, Michigan
• Kyra Mitchell, National Youth Work Committee Chair, NAACP

As an organization founded to solve one health inequity, the lack of diversity in the worldwide bone marrow registry, Gift of Life Marrow Registry is taking action address this public health crisis affecting BIPOC through advocacy, partnership, and action.  We are proud to partner with the NAACP, Fidelity Investments, McKesson, Morgan Stanley, and Rubius Therapeutics to hold virtual town halls on college campuses across the country. 

Town Halls will be held on college campuses around the country to have meaningful discussion about this crisis in health care, and to give them practical actions they can take to effect change.

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