MISSION STATEMENT

Our student-driven conference will foster discussion and partnership between healthcare providers, organization leaders, and community members to:

• Confront structural violence and disparities that both preceded and have been exacerbated by the COVID19 pandemic.

• Understand the ways in which institutional responses to the pandemic disproportionately harm black and brown communities in NYC.

• Identify steps to transform the social, political, and economic systems that create and perpetuate these disparities into systems that enable communities to thrive.

• Reimagine our health institutions as equal partners with communities, invested in creating an antiracist, equitable, and empowering healthcare landscape

This pandemic has magnified the systemic injustices that have always existed and underlie the poor health outcomes in our community. Now is the time to confront these issues and implement aggressive interventions to create a more equitable society that protects the health of all people.