BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ca835630-1af8-408b-a70a-d9bea26f1a9d.220896@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20220606T161632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220606T161632Z LOCATION: SUMMARY:Pandemic Lessons: Removing Barriers to Equitable Healthcare DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 pandemic afforded opportunities to celebrate hero ic healthcare workers and stories of healthcare successes\, including pub lic-private partnerships that researched\, treated\, vaccinated\, and oth erwise cared for people. It also exposed and exacerbated weaknesses and i nequities in the American healthcare system and\, even more dramatically\ , across the world. The health of the U. S. citizenry is compromised by t he limitations of our public health system\, the tenuousness of employer- based healthcare coverage\, systemic social biases that affect both patie nt access and outcome\, and complex relationships between healthcare prov iders\, insurance companies\, and medical researchers. Globally\, problem s of access are even starker\, as was made evident by the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines. Addressing these problems is no easy task\, parti cularly amidst polarizing discourse about health and healthcare. What int erventions could mitigate these local and global disparities? What do all citizens need to understand about medicine\, research\, and public healt h? What questions in medicine—of trust\, access\, cultural literacy\, or bias—need input from other perspectives\, even from non-healthcare discip lines? How can community voices and advocacy efforts be incorporated into institutional planning\, scientific development\, or public health commu nication?  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p><s pan>The COVID-19 pandemic afforded opportunities to celebrate heroic heal thcare workers and stories of healthcare successes\, including public-pri vate partnerships that researched\, treated\, vaccinated\, and otherwise cared for people. It also exposed and exacerbated weaknesses and inequiti es in the American healthcare system and\, even more dramatically\, acros s the world. The health of the U. S. citizenry is compromised by the limi tations of our public health system\, the tenuousness of employer-based h ealthcare coverage\, systemic social biases that affect both patient acce ss and outcome\, and complex relationships between healthcare providers\, insurance companies\, and medical researchers. Globally\, problems of ac cess are even starker\, as was made evident by the distribution of the CO VID-19 vaccines. Addressing these problems is no easy task\, particularly amidst polarizing discourse about health and healthcare. What interventi ons could mitigate these local and global disparities? What do all citize ns need to understand about medicine\, research\, and public health? What questions in medicine—of trust\, access\, cultural literacy\, or bias—ne ed input from other perspectives\, even from non-healthcare disciplines? How can community voices and advocacy efforts be incorporated into instit utional planning\, scientific development\, or public health communicatio n?&nbsp\;</span></p></body></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220921T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220921T120500 SEQUENCE:0 URL:https://publicaffairs.missouristate.edu/conference CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Future Students,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR