COVID-19 and Health Inequities Seminar Series   Jarvis Chen Dr. Jarvis Chen is a social epidemiologist whose research focuses on social inequalities in health, and especially racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in cancer outcomes. As a methodologist, Dr. Chen's interests include the development of methods for geospatial and spatiotemporal analysis, disease mapping, handling missing data, and latent variable analysis.           The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States…

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COVID-19 and Health Inequities Seminar Series   Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS is Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine. She is the inaugural Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity in the UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Bibbins-Domingo co-founded the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital that generates actionable…

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COVID-19 and Health Inequities Seminar Series   Tanjala Purnell Dr. Tanjala Purnell is an epidemiologist and health services researcher with over a decade of research experience related to identifying and addressing patient/family, healthcare system, and community factors influencing health and healthcare disparities for adults with cardiovascular disease risk factors, including hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes. She is an Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Epidemiology at the Johns…

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COVID-19 and Health Inequities Seminar Series   Joseph Lewnard and Maximiliano Cuevas Farmworkers are an essential workforce population in the United States whose continued work during the COVID-19 pandemic has been critical to the security of the food supply. However, the living and working conditions of this population, together with profound social, legal, and economic marginalization, have created a perfect storm in the context of the pandemic. We will describe…

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