Organized by the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Fellows, the annual HEAL (Health Equity and Leadership) Conference focuses on discussions and actions to promote racial, gender, sexual, and socioeconomic health equity nationally and globally. This year the HEAL Conference also intersects with...

We hear political candidates and in the media reference "first 100 days in office" all the time...

Moderator: Allison Puglisi (Harvard University) Opening Remarks: sadada (embodied healing justice teacher, nipmc) Roundtable:...

Flip the Script brings in voices that are often unheard or ignored at our institution but whose perspectives are critical to guide our work....

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Fourteen months into an unprecedented, worldwide pandemic, we now find ourselves on the precipice of hope. Thanks to the miracle of science and increases...

This session will feature community and conversation with Fania E. Davis, author of our common read text, Race & Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing & US Social Transformation. Davis will reflect on restorative justice as a way forward for healing historical harm, personal harm, and racialized violence. She will be engaged in conversation with members of our community as we explore what restorative justice means for HDS and whether it is a way forward to help us realize our vision of an anti-racist and anti-oppressive HDS.

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As efforts to distribute COVID-19 vaccines intensify throughout the United States and across the globe, how can we ensure that equity and access are prioritized? This panel seeks to address the challenges and opportunities of equitable...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on communities of color in the United States. In addition, the uneven and unequal distribution of vaccines is raising the issue of mistrust and vaccine hesitancy in these same communities. Lack of trust in the US healthcare system among communities of color is inextricably linked to the history of systemic racism in this country. With fewer than half of Black American adults indicating that they will definitely or probably get vaccinated against COVID-19, understanding the roots of this hesitancy—which dates back centuries—is...

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The New England Science Symposium (NESS), established in 2002, provides a forum for postdoctoral fellows; medical, dental and graduate students; post-baccalaureates; college and community college students (particularly for African-American, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native individuals) to share their biomedical and health-related research activities through oral or poster presentations, to engage in discussions related to career development in the sciences, to exchange ideas and to expand their professional networks. For more information, please contact...

The effects of race and racism often go unacknowledged by therapists, and many Black clients leave therapy feeling unaffirmed, invalidated, or worse, subjected to various forms of racism and microaggressions within the therapeutic relationship itself. In this webinar, culturally adapted cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is explored as a means to enhance counseling relationships and aid clinical decision-making with Black clients, as we discuss the psychological impacts of racism within the Black community...

Presented by The Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness

In the context of COVID, growing inequality and political polarization, Dr. Lamont is writing a book that diagnoses some of the current challenges facing Americans and offers a way forward. Her work draws from survey data and interviews with boomers, Gen Zs, and leading “agents of change,” who are producing new narratives in entertainment, comedy, advocacy, religion...

While the foods we consume are often tied to culture, the rubrics that we use to measure nutrition are often linked to science. What happens when we bring in the element of race and class into the consumption of foods? Using three distinct cases in Mexico, Guatemala, and among Mexican immigrants in the United States, this panel will highlight how food that is deemed "good for us" is often entangled more with the governance of immigrant and racialized bodies or economic options than nutrition.

We will explore the roles we play as students, faculty, scholars of religion, staff, and members of the wider community in transforming mass incarceration and how restorative justice helps us to bring our full selves and our intersectional identities to this work. We will discuss the historical roots and contemporary implications of mass incarceration and our collective responsibility to address this crisis.

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