Baltimore County Medical Association CME
Town Hall Health Equity Series
The Colors of COVID-19: A Black History Month Webinar With Dr. Michael Osterholm

How to Protect Everyone from Infection

Advancing Equitable Distribution of the COVID-19 Vaccines

Thursday, February 25
from 6:00 EST
Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH
Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and a member of President Joe Biden’s Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board.
Host
Professor, UMD School of Public Health and Director, Maryland Center for Health Equity

​Moderator
Host, You Got the Power Radio Show and Former Mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama
Panelists
  • Dr. Gregory Branch, Director Baltimore County Department of Health
  • Dr. Sandra Quinn, Professor and Chair, Dept. Family Science, Senior Associate Dir. Maryland Center for Health Equity
  • Dr. Leonard Richardson, internist and flight surgeon
  • Dr. John Ruffin, Director, NIH-NIMHD (Ret.)
  • Leslie Sherrod, Social Worker, Owner at Strength for the Journey

Sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Public Health
Objectives
  • Distinguish between the potential bias behind algorithms and data.
  • Explain how to listen and develop trust in patients with generational mistrust.
  • Describe the difference between institutional racism in health care and tailored solutions with policy implications.
  • Describe the burdens of race and history underlying structural inequality and social determinants of health associated with the excess burden of COVID-19 illness and premature death among people of color.
  • List examples of unconscious bias and how it may impact delivery of medical care and public health services.
  • Discuss the origins of bioethics and its roots in the history biomedical research abuse of human subjects recruited from communities of color.
  • Explain historical reasons for medical mistrust.
  • Discuss the difference between anti-vaxxers and vaccine hesitancy.
Join Us at the Town Hall!

Thursday, February 25 at 6:00 EST
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through Baltimore County Medical Association. Baltimore County Medical Association is accredited by MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society, to provide Continuing Medical Education for physicians.

The BCMA designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Co-Sponsored Baltimore City Medical Society and MedChi