Research Guides: Reliable sources of information during the COVID-19 pandemic: COVID-19 Impacting the Black Community

Healthcare Inequities Impacting the Black Community: BCC Fall 2020 series

As part of the Fall 2020 programming offered by the Black Cultural Center, BCC Librarian Ula Gaha has organized a series of virtual panels open for everyone to attend.

Healthcare Inequities Impacting the Black Community

Each installment in the series is co-sponsored by PULSIS, the Purdue University Department of Public Health, and Purdue’s Center for Health Equity and Innovation (CHEqI).

Installment 1

COVID-19 and Healthcare Inequities Impacting the Black Community
September 15, 2020 at 7pm EDT/Indianapolis time

Watch the recording of the event, COVID-19 and Healthcare Inequities Impacting the Black Community

This panel discussion with a Q&A portion addresses systemic inequalities that disproportionately affect the Black community with the COVID-19 pandemic. Speakers will address topics including the heightened risk of contracting the coronavirus, to the lack of available testing and inequities Black people face when seeking healthcare related to COVID-19.
Panelists:

Brian Williams, MD, FACS Associate Professor, Trauma and Acute Care Surgery The University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences
Dr. Sonak Pastakia, Professor of Pharmacy Practice Pharmacist, Indiana University Kenya Partnership
Natalia M. Rodriguez, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Purdue University Department of Public Health (moderator)

For more information on the other installments in this series,

please visit the Black Cultural Center Library's Website.

Race, Violence & Medicine Podcast with Dr. Brian H. Williams

Race, Violence, & Medicine Podcast / Dr. Brian H. Williams
"Constructive dialogue challenging your worldview and inspiring you to action. Always at the intersection of race, violence, and medicine."
COVID-19, healthcare equity, and criminal justice reform with Dr. Meghan Novisky reform with Dr.
"Dr. Meghan Novisky, assistant professor of criminology at Cleveland State University, discusses the intersection of COVID-19, healthcare access in prisons, and criminal justice reform."
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AUG 22, 2020
S4 EP 82

Additional resources

COVID-19 Hospitalization and Death by Race/Ethnicity
From the CDC; updated regularly
"Race and ethnicity are risk markers for other underlying conditions that impact health — including socioeconomic status, access to health care, and increased exposure to the virus due to occupation (e.g., frontline, essential, and critical infrastructure workers)."
Coronavirus infection by race: What's behind the health disparities?
From the Mayo Clinic:
"Why are people of color more at risk of coronavirus complications?"
Answer From William F. Marshall, III M.D.
The Color of Coronavirus: COVID-19 DEATHS BY RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE U.S.
From APM Research Lab; updated regularly

KEY FINDINGS (data collected through Aug. 18):
Actual death rates from COVID-19 data (aggregated from all U.S. states and the District of Columbia) have reached new highs for all race groups:

1 in 1,125 Black Americans has died (or 88.4 deaths per 100,000)

1 in 1,375 Indigenous Americans has died (or 73.2 deaths per 100,000)

1 in 1,575 Pacific Islander Americans has died (or 63.9 deaths per 100,000)

1 in 1,850 Latino Americans has died (or 54.4 deaths per 100,000)

1 in 2,450 White Americans has died (or 40.4 deaths per 100,000)

1 in 2,750 Asian Americans has died (or 36.4 deaths per 100,000)

Black Americans continue to experience the highest actual COVID-19 mortality rates nationwide—more than twice as high as the rate for Whites and Asians, who have the lowest actual rates.
COVID-19  health equity resources 
From the American Medical Association
"Throughout the COVID-19  pandemic, the AMA is curating critical health equity resources from across the web to examine the structural issues that contribute to and could exacerbate already existing inequities. "
CORONAVIRUS RESOURCES
From the NAACP
See also: https://naacp.org/coronavirus/
Center for Urban and Racial Equity: Equitable Response Community Commons / African Americans
"We create and curate tools that build knowledge, analysis and skills to practice racial equity and work toward a vision for racial justice."