November 6, 2018
"Erased Minorities – The Model Minority Myth & Health Disparities in the API Community"
Speaker: Dr. Jess Guh
Dr. Guh is a Chinese American family medicine provider at Swedish Family Medicine and ICHS Holly Park Clinic. She is an outspoken activist on issues related to race, privilege, class, and medicine. She has worked extensively with organizations about race and diversity, providing services including lectures, workshops, and consulting.
Location: University of Washington Health Sciences T435
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Sponsored by:
Center for Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (CEPI)
Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA)
Past events
- In February 2015, Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones from Morehouse School of Medicine presented: “Naming, Measuring, and Addressing Racism and Other Systems of Structured Inequity” at Medicine Grand Rounds. Dr. Jones is a senior fellow at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute.
- Dr. Ebony Boulware, professor and head of General Internal Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, presented: "Read the signs? Helping patients achieve health literacy in health care" on October 20, 2016.
- Dr. Eliseo J. Perez-Stable presented: “Reducing disparities in health outcomes: NIMHD agenda on equity” on March 2, 2017. Dr. Perez-Stable is the Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the National Institutes of Health.