Epidemiology and Race: Why and How We Study Racial Health Disparities (Part 1)
How can theory and history help us identify pathways that contribute to racial health disparities in the United States?
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Course Information
- Audience: Program administrators/managers, data managers, data analysts and program evaluators, and public health workforce members.
- Format: Webinar
- Date/Time: Thursday, February 25, 2021, 4:30 – 6:00 PM
- Price: Free
- Length: 3 part series, 1.5 hours each
- 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 hour. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hour is 1. Provider ID: 1131137, Event ID: SS1131137_ER1.
If you are not seeking 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: Health Equity Skills
- Learning Level: Awareness
- Companion Trainings:
- Supplemental materials: NA
- Pre-requisites: None
About this Seminar
This series of panels will examine how race and racial health disparities are studied in epidemiology. The first panel in our series will explore the history of census data, how data on race are collected and studied, and the implications of how this data are used in population health science.
What you'll learn
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- List six structural or social determinants of health that disproportionately affect persons of color
- Describe relationship of self-identification and social identification of race with health outcomes
- Discuss the importance of understanding causal mechanisms in addressing race and racism in epidemiologic findings
- Discuss the reasons for and the ramifications of limitations of data sets in assessing race
- Discuss the fundamental social causes of health inequalities and how they lead to socioeconomic and racial disparities
- Discuss possible sources of bias that may influence findings about the effects of race on health outcomes
Moderator
Jay Kaufman
President, Society for Epidemiologic Research
Subject Matter Experts
Wayne Giles
Dean and Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chanelle Howe
Associate Professor, Brown University
Jennifer Manly
Professor,
Columbia University
Sherman James
Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Duke Sanford School of Public Policy
Registration
Select the Enroll Me button below to register for this webinar. If you have any trouble accessing the webinar, contact support@nephtc.org.
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.
* Yale School of Public Health, Office of Public Health Practice, a New England Public Health Training Center partner, is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. All CHES credit inquiries are managed by YSPH