Podcast: "Racial Health Disparities: How COVID-19 Magnified a Public Health Emergency"


"The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the health disparities in America's communities of color in such dramatic fashion that racism is now seen as a public health emergency.  In the season finale of “Beyond the White Coat,” David Skorton, MD, AAMC president and CEO, and Malika Fair, MD,  MPH, senior director of health equity partnerships and programs at the AAMC, discuss what forces are driving the disparities in health care access, how physicians can work to acknowledge and address racism against Black Americans, and what the academic medicine community can do to address institutional and systemic racism."

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Beyond the White Coat is a podcast produced by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

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