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Do White Americans Get Better Health Care than People of Color?

  • When
  • September 15, 2011
    3:00–9:30 p.m. (EDT)
  • Where
  • Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore
Do White Americans Get Better Health Care than People of Color? (September 15, 2011)

Michelle Gourdine, physician and author of Reclaiming Our Health: A Guide to African American Wellness, and Thomas LaVeist, director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Disparities Solutions,  discuss the inequities that exist in our current medical care system and offer solutions for change.

Michelle Gourdine is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and senior associate faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Thomas LaVeist is the William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy and Director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

This event is part of OSI-Baltimore’s Talking About Race series, co-sponsored by the Enoch Pratt Free Library, which continues to explore the many different facets of this complex subject.

Location

Enoch Pratt Free Library
Wheeler Auditorium
400 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD

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