The Silas Lecture is funded by a grant from the Philips Petroleum Foundation and honors CJ "Pete" Silas, a GA Tech alum and former Philips Petroleum presdient. The series fouces on techical and business decisions that have ethical ramifications. This years speakers were Harry Heiman and Jodie Guest.
Leadership at the Time of a Global Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed gaps in the US healthcare and public health systems and also laid bare the profound health inequities experienced by socially disadvantaged communities and populations. Both COVID-19 and the resulting social and financial crises have disproportionately impacted the same racial and ethnic minority communities in predictable ways, based on longstanding social and economic disadvantage. Dr. Harry Heiman, a family physician and public health expert, will assess the current challenges and opportunities for political and public health leadership as well as our society more broadly as we address this unprecedented global pandemic.
Public health leadership and communication in a time of two pandemics
The US is currently dealing with two pandemics, COVID-19 and racism. One is new and one is generations old but both are public health crises. The effects of the two pandemics are inextricably linked as COVID-19 disproportionately affects minority populations in the US. Black and Latino communities are suffering higher rates of disease, hospitalization and death related to the virus. Dr. Jodie Guest is an infectious disease epidemiologist and professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She will discuss communicating public health messages during this time of crisis.
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