UPCOMING EVENTS
12/5/2025
December Health Equity Seminar
Title (TBD)
Dr. Keith Norris, Executive Vice Chair, Department of Medicine Office of Community Engagement and Inclusive Excellence, UCLA.
Dr. Keith Norris, Executive Vice Chair, Department of Medicine Office of Community Engagement and Inclusive Excellence, UCLA.
1/09/2026
January Health Equity Seminar
Title (TBD)
PEEP Panel – Dr. Monika Safford, Amy McMenamin, PhD, RN, Ariel Barasch and Walter Sotelo will discuss the Promotoras de Salud program
PEEP Panel – Dr. Monika Safford, Amy McMenamin, PhD, RN, Ariel Barasch and Walter Sotelo will discuss the Promotoras de Salud program
2/6/2026
February Health Equity Seminar
Title (TBD)
J. Craig Phillips, LLM, PhD, RN, ACRN, FAAN, FCAN, University of Ottawa, expert in curriculum development for the school of nursing, government policy and Co-Director of the International Nursing Network for HIV Research.
J. Craig Phillips, LLM, PhD, RN, ACRN, FAAN, FCAN, University of Ottawa, expert in curriculum development for the school of nursing, government policy and Co-Director of the International Nursing Network for HIV Research.
3/06/2026
March Health Equity Seminar
Title (TBD)
William Schpero, PhD, Health Economist from Population Health Sciences at WCM will give an update on his research identifying policy levers to address racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health and health care using Medicaid data.
William Schpero, PhD, Health Economist from Population Health Sciences at WCM will give an update on his research identifying policy levers to address racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health and health care using Medicaid data.
4/3/2026
April Health Equity Seminar
Title (TBD)
Marcus Lambert, PhD – SUNY Downstate, expert in health disparities research and public health training.
Marcus Lambert, PhD – SUNY Downstate, expert in health disparities research and public health training.
5/1/2026
May Health Equity Seminar
Title (TBD)
First day of Women’s Health Week – I organized a panel on medical gaslighting and how women’s symptoms are dismissed in healthcare. Title: “She said, they won’t listen. Bias in women’s healthcare.” The panels are:
First day of Women’s Health Week – I organized a panel on medical gaslighting and how women’s symptoms are dismissed in healthcare. Title: “She said, they won’t listen. Bias in women’s healthcare.” The panels are:
- Victoria Leigh Brown, PhD – first author of paper “Believing women: a qualitative exploration of provider disbelief and pain dismissal among women with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome from the MAPP research network“
- Arianne Malekzadeh, MA, doctoral candidate at George Washington University, first author on paper “‘Am I Truly Invisible?’: Black Women’s Experiences of and Coping With Intersectional Invisibility in Uterine Fibroid Treatment“
- Charee M. Thompson, MD, PhD, Department of Communications at University of Illinois, first author on paper “Women’s experiences of health-related communicative disenfranchisement“
The vision of the Cornell Center for Health Equity is to nurture durable academic-community partnerships to inform our research agenda, integrate community perspectives into our research, and develop an infrastructure to disseminate and implement the results of our work with the overarching goal of achieving health equity locally, regionally, and nationally.
