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The contagion next time: Underlying socioeconomic and racial divides and our risk from COVID and future pandemics

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Air date:	Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 2:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views:	Total views: 1,409 (409 Live, 1,000 On-demand)
Category:	WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Runtime:	00:59:41
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Description:	WALS Health is a product of a broad range of social and economic conditions. The COVID-19 pandemic showed how longstanding underinvestment in these conditions affected our overall health during a time of crisis and widened health gaps between racial/ethnic and socioeconomic groups. COVID-19 illustrates how our extraordinary achievement in biomedical science—evidenced by remarkable advances to a COVID-19 vaccine in record time—is not matched by commensurate achievement in creating the conditions that can generate health in populations. Sandro Galea is a physician, epidemiologist, and author, is dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He previously held academic and leadership positions at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature, and is a regular contributor to a range of public media, about the social causes of health, mental health, and the consequences of trauma. He has been listed as one of the most widely cited scholars in the social sciences. He is chair of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Galea has received several lifetime achievement awards. Galea holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto, graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow.

NLM Title:	The contagion next time : underlying socioeconomic and racial divides and our risk from COVID and future pandemics / Sandro Galea.
Author:	Galea, Sandro. National Institutes of Health (U.S.),
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Abstract:	(CIT): WALSHealth is a product of a broad range of social and economic conditions. The COVID-19 pandemic showed how longstanding underinvestment in these conditions affected our overall health during a time of crisis and widened health gaps between racial/ethnic and socioeconomic groups. COVID-19 illustrates how our extraordinary achievement in biomedical science--evidenced by remarkable advances to a COVID-19 vaccine in record time--is not matched by commensurate achievement in creating the conditions that can generate health in populations.Sandro Galea is a physician, epidemiologist, and author, is dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He previously held academic and leadership positions at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature, and is a regular contributor to a range of public media, about the social causes of health, mental health, and the consequences of trauma. He has been listed as one of the most widely cited scholars in the social sciences. He is chair of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Galea has received several lifetime achievement awards. Galea holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto, graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow.
Subjects:	COVID-19--epidemiology Minority Groups Pandemics Socioeconomic Factors
Publication Types:	Lecture Webcast

NLM Classification:	WC 506.4
NLM ID:	101775914
CIT Live ID:	40149
Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=40149

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