How the Hidden Mechanics of Genetic Medicines Can Disadvantage Non-White Individuals
Penn LDI’s Carmen Guerra Warns a White House Forum

As a panelist at the White House Minority Health Forum, LDI Senior Fellow Carmen Guerra, MD, MSCE, warned of the equity implications of genetic-based immunological drugs that are dependent on a genetic element that is prominent in white populations but not in other populations.

Guerra is Vice Chair of Diversity and Inclusion in the Perelman School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine and Associate Director of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center. As a nationally recognized expert in the field of health and health care disparities, she was invited to be a panelist on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s inaugural White House Minority Health Forum.

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Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD, Dean and Professor of Medicine for the College of Medicine at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.

We are excited to announce that the Office of Inclusion Diversity and Equity and the Special Interest Group for Health Equity and Health Disparities is sponsoring an upcoming virtual event on Violence Prevention, featuring guest speaker Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD, Dean and Professor of Medicine for the College of Medicine at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.

Dr. Prothrow-Stith is a renowned expert in public health and has dedicated her career to the prevention of violence, especially among adolescents. She has authored several books, including "Deadly Consequences: How Violence Is Destroying Our Teenage Population and a Plan to Begin Solving the Problem."

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The Special Interest Group (SIG)

Watch the recording of Georges Benjamin here

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Past Special Interest Group (SIG)

We would like to thank everyone who joined us for Health Equity Week. View all of the 2018 Health Equity Week Recordings.

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