Health Inequities

Health Equity Policy, Community, and the Mississippi Delta

Past

Dec 3, 2024

1:00-2:30 p.m. ET

Video
An island view from the top

This conversation considered how we can better advance health equity in local communities and beyond. We reflected on themes from the book Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta: Charting the Health Equity Policy Agenda, by BUSPH Professor David K. Jones (1981–2021), who spent four years visiting the Mississippi Delta conducting primary research with residents and local leaders and exploring the influence of both policy and community-led initiatives on their health.

Speakers

Bizu Gelaye

Chief, Epidemiology Branch and Senior Investigator, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

John Green

Professor and Director, Southern Rural Development Center

Jamila Michener

Associate Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University

Philip Rocco

Associate Professor of Political Science, Marquette University

Lynn C. Woo

Associate Director, Center for Population Studies, The University of Mississippi

Moderator

Timothy Callaghan

Associate Professor of Health Policy and Politics, Boston University School of Public Health