Part 1: Data, race, and COVID-19

This three-part series will examine the racial disparities in health brought vividly to public attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first panel in our series will explore the importance of collecting and utilizing data on race to better understand the impact of the pandemic.

Cohosted with Boston University Center for Antiracist Research

Part 1: Monday, April 5, 4:30 – 6:00 PM

Part 2: Tuesday, April 6, 4:30 – 6:00 PM

Part 3: Wednesday, April 7, 4:30 – 6:00 PM

Agenda

4:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Opening Conversation

In conversation: Dean Sandro Galea and Dr. Ibram Kendi
5:00 – 5:40 p.m.
Panel Presentations
5:40 – 6:00 p.m.
Moderated Discussion and Q&A from the Audience

Speakers

@sandrogalea

Dean Sandro Galea

Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
@DRIBRAM

Ibram Kendi

Director and Founder, Center for Antiracist Research, Boston University

@DRIBRAM

Ibram Kendi

Director and Founder, Center for Antiracist Research, Boston University

Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent. He is the author of many books including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and four #1 New York Times bestsellers, How to Be an Antiracist; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored with Jason Reynolds; and Antiracist Baby, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky and Four Hundred Souls: A Community history of African America 1619-2019, edited with Keisha N. Blain. In 2020, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
@KimberlyEAtkins

Kimberly Atkins

(MODERATOR) Senior Opinion Writer, The Boston Globe

@KimberlyEAtkins

Kimberly Atkins

(MODERATOR) Senior Opinion Writer, The Boston Globe

Kimberly Atkins is a senior opinion writer and columnist at The Boston Globe, and lead columnist for The Emancipator, a joint venture by Globe Opinion and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research that reimagines 19th-century abolitionist newspapers to reframe the current national conversation on racial justice.

She is also an MSNBC contributor, and a guest host for the NPR/WBUR-produced news program On Point. She is also co-host of the weekly podcast #SistersInLaw, which breaks down the law behind the headlines of the week.

Previously, Kimberly was the first Washington, DC-based news correspondent for WBUR. She has also served as the Boston Herald’s Washington bureau chief, guest host of C-SPAN’s morning call-in show Washington Journal, and a Supreme Court reporter for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and its sister publications.

She has appeared as a political commentator on a host of national and international television and radio networks, including CNN, Fox News, NBC News, PBS, NPR, Sky News (UK), and CBC News (Canada).

Before launching her journalism career, she was a trial and appellate litigation attorney in Boston.

Kimberly is a native of Michigan, and a graduate of Wayne State University, Boston University School of Law and Boston University College of Communication, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
@megansandel

Megan Sandel

Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
@KayeAlese

Kaye-Alese Green

Diversity & Inclusion Fellow, BUSM; Visiting Fellow, Institute of Health Systems Innovation & Policy

@KayeAlese

Kaye-Alese Green

Diversity & Inclusion Fellow, BUSM; Visiting Fellow, Institute of Health Systems Innovation & Policy

Kaye-Alese Green received a BS in Psychology and Master’s in Interdisciplinary Studies with a dual concentration in Public Health and Urban Education from the University of Central Florida. Currently she is in between her second and third year of medical school and is serving as the inaugural Diversity & Inclusion Fellow for Boston University School of Medicine with a joint appointment as a Research Fellow at BU’s Institute of Health Systems Innovation & Policy. Ms. Green’s research interests include pediatric trauma, medical education reform and upstream divers of health disparities.
@stephanieedc

Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba

Executive Director, Children’s HealthWatch
Stephen A. Wilson

Chair, Family Medicine, Boston University School of Public Health
Jayakanth Srinivasan

Research Associate Professor, Boston University Questrom School of Business
@JuliaRaifman

Julia Raifman

Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
Aviva Geiger Schwarz

Data Editor, The COVID Racial Data Tracker, Boston University Center for Antiracist Research