The Link between Health, Wealth, and Equity: The Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on the People of NH and VT
When we think about individual economic shortcomings in the United States, there can be a tendency to create a narrative focused on an individual issue. What structural and community type concepts can be applied to economic inequality?
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Course Information
- Audience: Public health workforce
- Format: Webinar
- Date/Time: 17th November 2020, 9:00 am-10:30 am ET
- Price: Free
- Length: 50 min
- Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 1. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: SS1131137_LBHWE.
If you are not seeking a CHES/MCHES contact hours, if you complete the evaluation, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course. - Competencies: Policy Development and Program Planning Skills
- Learning Level: Awareness
- Companion Trainings: Food and Housing Insecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: Old Problems, New Opportunities?
Health Haves, Health Nots in a Time of COVID-19 - Supplemental materials:None
- Pre-requisites: None
About this Recording
Jessica Santos, Ph.D, esteemed lecturer at Heller School for Social Policy & Management at Brandeis University, analyzes the role of policy in how our economy structures health, wealth, jobs, and equity. Santos suggests a need for significant intervention, structuring equity into the future.
Jessica Santos walks the listener through the state of wealth and equity in the United States, while acknowledging the realities of racial and economic divides and urging the listener to consider how to structure equity into the future of economic policy.
What you'll learn
At the end of the recording, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the exponential economic impacts of COVID-19 on New Hampshire, Vermont, and the United States
- Make connections between underlying social, racial, and economic divides; and recognize the consequences of these divides
- Conclude that significant intervention is needed in economic patterns to structure exponential equity
- Consider how to craft economic policy in Vermont and New Hampshire while prioritizing racial equity
Subject Matter Expert
Jessica Santos, Ph.D
Lecturer at Heller School for Social Policy & Management, Brandeis University. Principal Investigator on multiple federally and privately funded mixed methods studies focused on examining pathways for economic stability, upward mobility, and equity through social policy.
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Acknowledgement: This project is/was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB6HP31685 “Regional Public Health Training Center Program.” This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.