2024 Advancing Health Care Equity Speaker Series begins Jan. 17
Quick Summary
- Quarter at Aggie Square offers its annual speaker series that examines medical, legal, sociocultural and historical perspectives on health-care equity from Jan. 17 through March 6.
Achieving health equity requires ensuring opportunities for everyone to attain their highest level of health. This requires removing obstacles to health, such as poverty, discrimination and their consequences.
Quarter at Aggie Square offers its annual speaker series that examines medical, legal, sociocultural and historical perspectives on health-care equity from Jan. 17 through March 6.
Hosted by Professors Emily Merchant, Meaghan O’Keefe and Marina Ellefson as a part of their Quarter at Aggie Square curriculum on the same topic, speakers include faculty from UC Davis School of Medicine and Law, as well as other institutions and organizations.
Speaker schedule
Jan. 17
Rebecca Kluchin, Professor of History, California State University, Sacramento
Jan. 24
Chris Hanssmann, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, UC Davis
Jan. 29
Alice Popejoy, Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis Health
Feb. 7
Elena Conis, Professor of Journalism, UC Berkeley
Feb. 28
Terri Laws, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, University of Michigan, Dearborn
March 6
Kimberly Badal, founder, Caribbean Cancer Research Initiative
The speaker series is from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesdays (with the exception of the Jan. 29 session, which is a Monday) and runs Jan. 17 through March 6. The sessions take place in Betty Irene Moore Hall Room 3400 or the Center for Health Technology Room 1341, both on the UC Davis Sacramento campus.
The talks are free and open to the public. Learn more and register online to attend the series either in person or via zoom.
The Advancing Health Care Equity Speaker Series is co-sponsored by the Quarter at Aggie Square and the UC Davis Science and Technology Studies Department.