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| 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM | Health, Health Care, and Health Disparities Among Latinx Populations
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the CUNY Institute for Health Equity will hold panel discussions highlighting scientists, scholars, and leaders from a Hispanic or Latino background conducting important research and helming key organizations.
Panel Chairs: Judith Aponte, associate professor at Hunter College’s School of Nursing, and Maria Isabel Roldós, director of the CUNY Institute for Health Equity and an associate professor of Health Sciences at Lehman College.
The panel includes Cristina Contreras, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan; Paule Joseph, Ph.D., chief of the Section of Sensory Science and Metabolism at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute of Nursing Research; Omar Martinez, who leads Temple University’s Disparities and Inequities in HIV/AIDS Research Lab; and Karen Tejada, a community/public health nursing graduate student.
Register here.
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| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | The American Tragedy of COVID-19: Social and Political Crises of 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is a classic tragedy of destruction following errors in judgment. Naomi Zack presents social and political aspects of this disaster as it unfolded in public health through federal and local government structures, society, culture, and the economy.
Federalism combined with politics in facing and denying the SARS-CoV2 pandemic has revealed both weaknesses and strengths.
Naomi Zack is Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College.
RSVP by September 29th: https://libcal.lehman.edu/event/8111923?hs=a
*This is an online event - URL will be sent via registration e-mail*
*Registration is required*
Information: Michelle.Ehrenpreis@lehman.cuny.edu
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| 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | Anthony Ray Hinton - Special Zoom Event
Join us as we welcome:
ANTHONY RAY HINTON
to Lehman College, for a special Zoom event.
Anthony Ray Hinton survived for 30 years on Alabama’s death row. His story is a decades-long journey to exoneration and freedom.
In 1985, Mr. Hinton was convicted of the unsolved murders of two fast-food restaurant managers based on the testimony of ballistics experts for the State who claimed that the crime bullets came from a dusty revolver found in Mr. Hinton’s mother’s closet. Without the benefit of a competent expert to challenge the State’s theory (Mr. Hinton’s lawyer hired a ballistics expert who was blind in one eye), an all-white jury convicted Mr. Hinton and he was sentenced to death.
After years of petitioning to have the revolver re-analyzed, three independent experts concluded that the bullets could not have been fired from his mother’s revolver. With the assistance of the Equal Justice Initiative, led by attorney Bryan Stevenson, Mr. Hinton was freed in 2015.
Since his release, Mr. Hinton has traveled the world sharing his story and discussing the changes that need to be made to prevent similar injustices from happening to other people. In 2018, Mr. Hinton published The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, which was selected for Oprah’s Book Club and is a New York Times bestseller. In 2019, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from St. Bonaventure University.
Faculty and Staff are invited to bring students!
FOR RESERVATIONS, RSVP AT CLUBS.LEHMAN.EDU
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| 10:00 AM | Updates on COVID-19: What the Virus Tells Us About Immune Response, Treatment and Vaccine Development
Since March, biologists have been racing to learn more about COVID-19 and the new coronavirus that causes it. What have they learned? What is left to be discovered? As we head into fall and a possible “second wave,” hear from two expert biologists, professors from the Lehman College Department of Biology, who will explain the biology of a virus, what makes coronaviruses unique among them; what scientists have learned about “long haulers”–those with immune responses associated with chronic coronavirus infections; and virus detection, treatment and vaccine development.
Moderators:
Awa Jobe, '21
Biology, Lehman College
Haiping Cheng
Chair, Department of Biology
Lehman College
Moira Sauane
Associate Professor, Biology
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