The COVID-19 Pandemic & Health Inequalities: An Opportunity for a Radical Revolution in Healthcare

Racial and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 diagnosis are superimposed upon and have the potential to worsen historical inequities in the United States. Lessons learned from the current COVID-19 pandemic provide an opportunity for healing and reshaping of our current healthcare system to better serve historically marginalized populations.

Presenter - Roy Wade Jr. MD, PhD, MPH, MSHP: Dr. Wade is an instructor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and a general pediatrician at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Cobbs Creek Primary Care. He has a PhD in Microbiology from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School, completing his pediatric residency at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. After residency, Dr. Wade completed a Commonwealth Fund Harvard Minority Health Policy Fellowship at the Harvard School of Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health earning a MPH in Health Policy and Management. He completed a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Fellowship at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

This event is part of the 2021 Geisel MLK Celebration. For a full schedule of events, please go to:  https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/dice/mlk/.

This event is free and all are welcome.