Community Grand Rounds Speaker Series
2019
Debby Irving
Shining a Bright Light on Whiteness
‘Waking Up White’ Author Invites White Audience Members to Look Inside By TED HARTZELL BENTON HARBOR, Mich.—You don’t get much whiter than Debby Irving. Her husband Bruce attests to this on the jacket of her book, “Waking Up White: And Finding...
Dr. Bechara Choucair
How Housing = Health … Or Illness
Dr. Bechara Choucair, chief community health officer for Kaiser Permanente, speaks to an audience July 17 in Berrien Springs, Mich., as part of Community Grand Rounds: Healing the Trauma of Racism.Kaiser Permanente and Community Partners Move...
Advancing Health? It’s About the Mind, Body, and Community
2018
Dr. David Ansell
Closing ‘The Death Gap’
Dr. David Ansell likes to say he practiced internal medicine for decades along “one street” but in “two worlds.” The street is Ogden Avenue, which links Chicago neighborhoods of great wealth, and correspondingly long lifespans, with poor neighborhoods and far shorter lifespans. One world is predominantly white, the other predominantly black and brown.
How Inequality Kills: Health Systems and Health Equity
Dr. David Williams
What Can We Do?
Harvard sociologist David Williams offered many ways people can fight back against institutional racism and implicit bias and make a healthier social environment for all people. His suggestions range from little daily acts to big reforms.
Interview with David Williams, MPH, PhD: Structural Competency and Institutional Discrimination
Interview with David Williams, MPH, PhD: Discrimination and Health Disparities
Interview with David Williams, MPH, PhD: Social Influences on Health
Interview with David Williams, MPH, PhD: Recognizing and Preventing Implicit Bias
Dr. Pat Rush & Tasha Turner MA LLPC
Systemic Racism Adds Another Layer of Trauma for Many People; Therapist Calls it ‘A Public Health Crisis’
As a program director, Turner, a psychotherapist, directs trauma-informed initiatives for Lakeland Health, the health care system that serves Berrien County in southwest Michigan. In that role Turner is looking at the lives of many tens of thousands of people. It is a county polarized by race and economic disparities—and big gaps in health outcomes between blacks and whites. The view from Turner’s Lakeland perch is necessarily disturbing.
