Dean’s Inclusive Excellence Lecture Series: Past as Prologue: COVID-19, HIV and Other Infectious Disease Inequities by Race/Ethnicity

This series is sponsored by the Dean’s Office, Inclusive Excellence and the Department of Epidemiology.

Speaker:
Gregorio Millett, MPH, vice president and director of public policy at amfAR

Using data from the scientific literature, this talk will explore similarities between the HIV and COVID-19 pandemics with respect to inequities by race and ethnicity. Millett will discuss lessons that were ignored from the HIV pandemic, such as the degree to which social determinants impact health; the role of multiple overlapping epidemics in amplifying inequities; stigmatization of at-risk communities and victim-blaming that run counter to the prevailing science; and possible solutions to prevent the next pandemic from disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations.

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