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Annotation: In this webinar congresswoman Ayanna Pressley joins the program and engages in a discussion with Dean Michelle Williams and former Rep. Jeff Sánchez about ending racism in public health and other topics.

Learning Objectives: • Explore languages and policies associated with public health and racsim. • Discuss a policy agenda and legal justice system. • Examine gun laws in Massachusetts as well as data collection strategies related to eliminating racism.

Annotation: Professor Magee describes research on how mindfulness has been shown to help increase our emotional resilience; address fears, anxieties, and other emotions; choose how we will respond to injustice; and change unhelpful habits. She also discusses an exciting new area of study: focusing on external mindfulness and its effects as individuals interact with others, their environments, and the array of challenges facing us all.

Learning Objectives: • Understand social identity-based bias. • Learn multiple levels of response to the call for equity and justice. • Discuss the connection between mindfulness meditation and individual psychological focus and how personal stress management plays a role.

Annotation: Pregnant women in the United States are more than twice as likely to die from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth than those in most other high-income countries in the world. The sad reality is that women of color are disproportionately impacted. Urgent action is needed to address persistent health inequities and ensure all mothers receive the best possible care throughout their pregnancies. During a National Association of Black Journalists webinar on May 19, 2021, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association previewed the Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Health of America Report®, “Racial Disparities in Maternal Health” and hosted a discussion with health equity leaders on the current state of racial disparities in healthcare, strategies to change the trajectory of disparities, and solutions for Black maternal health.

Learning Objectives: • Discuss the implications of implicit bias on maternal health • Explore how new home-based models of maternal health care fight racial disparities

Annotation: This podcast features a conversation between Megan Sandel, MD, MPH, an associate professor of pediatrics at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health and co-lead principal investigator with Children’s Health Watch, and Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, a pediatrician, public health advocate, and scholar who is the Director of Equity and Justice for The California Children’s Trust and most recently, co-developed THE CONVERSATION: Between Us, About Us, a national campaign to bring information about the COVID vaccines directly to Black communities.

Learning Objectives: • Understand the role of health care sector efforts to provide assistance to patients to reduce their social risks. • Explore ways in which social inequality has been encoded and medicalized in the conceptualization of social care. • Discuss ways to think differently about what “health equity” means.

Annotation: This webinar discusses addressing systemic racial discrimination in the health care system and meeting the moment to earn trust among individuals and communities as COVID-19 vaccines come to market. xxx

Learning Objectives: • Discuss medicaid programs' focus on delivery systems, benefits and reimbursement rates. • Explore the health care workforce: strikes, shortages and staffing requirements. • Hear from caregivers about the complexities of long-term care.

Annotation: This video provides a basic introduction to some key principles of intercultural communication: a contrast between an "other-centered" orientation and "intercultural communication competence," low-context versus high-context cultures, and hofstede's dimensions of cultural difference.

Learning Objectives: • Outline what culture is. • Summarize the challenges of communicating with people from a different culture. • Develop intercultural communication competence.

Annotation: In this webinar learn about: • The Framework for Child Health Transformation • The Equity Imperative in Health and Early Childhood • Child Health Care and Early Childhood Systems Building

Annotation: This webinar focuses on what MCH professionals can do to achieve equity in healthcare responses to the adolescent population. Presenters share the basics of transformation; exemplary and transformed equity practices in healthcare; and distinctions between young child and adolescent health.

Annotation: In this video we tackle the complexities of cultural identity and social power, which combine to construct dominant and nondominant identities with important social disparities. We look at the importance of intersectionality, consider how dominant cultural norms can be internalized by nondominant groups, and examine the phenomenon of white and male privilege.

Learning Objectives: • Learn what identity versus culture is. • Understand how a shared identity is developed overtime. • Learn what privilege is.

Annotation: This webinar includes a discussion around child health care transformation opportunities in Medicaid and CHIP. Opportunities for federal leadership in transforming child health is also addressed.