COVID-19 and Health Disparities: Protecting Our Most Vulnerable Populations

Online Webinar

Dr Marshall Chin, MD, MPH, Dr Elbert Huang, MD, MPH, Dr Monica Peek, MD, MPH and Dr Satendra Singh, MD discuss COVID-19 and the macro effects this virus has on social and health disparities. Dr Chin covers how the US has addressed the pandemic, the success and challenges faced, and generalises these facts on a global scale. Dr Huang addresses the ways in which how COVID-19 has impacted the elderly population. Talking beyond the vulnerable, Dr Peek touches on the marginalised, specifically on African-American disparities in the States, and how this global pandemic has further exposed such issues. Dr Singh dives into the effects on a third group, the disabled, exploring health and disparity amongst this group of people. The four speakers subsequently engage in a panel discussion, discussing various topics including the US’s surprising ineptness in coping with the virus, optimal methods for the restructuring of patient care facilities and healthcare systems, and the mental and psychological effects caused by the pandemic, to name but a few.

Speakers from the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence:
 

• Marshall Chin, MD, MPH
  Richard Parrillo Family Professor of Healthcare Ethics in the Department of Medicine; Associate Chief and Director of Research, Section of General Internal Medicine; Director, Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research and Associate Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago
   
• Elbert Huang, MD, MPH
  Professor of Medicine; Director of the Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy; and Associate Director of the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research at the University of Chicago
   
• Monica Peek, MD, MPH
  Associate Professor of Medicine; Associate Director, Chicago Center for Diabetes Translational Research; and Associate Director (Director of Research), MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago
   
• Satendra Singh, MD
  Associate Professor of Physiology, University College of Medical Sciences (UCMS), University of Delhi and Executive Member of the Ethics Committee of the Delhi Medical Council