Education In Action: Addressing Healthcare Disparities in Our Communities

On Thursday, October 29, 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 Ron Jones, News Anchor 11Alive. The panel will feature:

• Dr. Brian Rivers, MD, Director of Cancer Health Equity Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta and American Association for Cancer Research Cancer Health Disparities Progress Report Steering Committee Member 

• Kimberly Carr, PhD, MPH, Community Resource Specialist, Rural Health Innovation Center 

• Dr. Jonathan Shepherd, MD, Chief Medical Director, Hope Health Systems, President of the Board of Directors, Black Mental Health Alliance 

• Amari Fennoy, Certified Civic Engagement Trainer, 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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