“Equity & Effectiveness in the California COVID-19 Response”
- https://uccs.ucdavis.edu/events/2021-October-6-BibbinsDomingo
- “Equity & Effectiveness in the California COVID-19 Response”
- 2021-10-06T12:00:00-07:00
- 2021-10-06T13:00:00-07:00
- Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo from UC San Francisco
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* In light of the community concerns regarding COVID-19, this talk will be given as a webinar.*
This talk will review excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in California and explore equity and effectiveness in the pandemic response.
Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Chair and Professor of Medicine
at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the inaugural Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity in the UCSF School of Medicine. She co-founded the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital that focuses on actionable research to improve health equity and reduce health disparities. She is one of the Principal Investigators for the UCSF Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, and she leads the UCSF COVID Community Public Health Initiative. She is a general internist and cardiovascular epidemiologist whose scholarship includes observational epidemiology, pragmatic trials, and simulation modeling to examine clinical and public health approaches to prevention in the US and globally. She previously served on and led the US Preventive Services Task Force from 2010-2017. She is an inducted member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the National Academy of Medicine.
In light of the community concerns regarding COVID-19, this talk will be given as a webinar. The link will be provided on October 5h to those that have registered by 5:00 pm on Monday, October 4th