Imagine Worcester Special

Virginia Swain is the host of Imagine Worcester and the World, your source for local and global interviews with peacemakers around the world. Community Dialogue on Health Equity and Institutional Racism with Distinguished Panel and Discussion organized by Virginia Swain, Hostess, Imagine Worcester and the World and held at Worcester Department of Public Health, 25 Meade Street, Room 109 February 22, 2013. Jeroan Allison and Virginia Swain Co-Moderators. Distinguished Discussants: Ø Jeroan Allison, M.D. M.S, Professor and Vice Chair, Associate Vice Provost for Health Disparities, UMASS Medical School Ø Michael Hirsh, MD, Surgeon-in-Chief, UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center, Acting Commissioner of Public Health, City of Worcester Ø Brenda Jenkins, MOSAIC, Community Relations Director, Worcester YMCA Ø Joyce McNickles, Ed.D, McNickles and Associates Ø Cathy O’Connor, Office of Healthy Communities, MA Department of Public Health Clara Savage, Ed.D, Executive Director, Common Pathways Ø Virginia Swain, M.A., Founder and Director, Institute for Global Leadership Imagine Worcester and other events leading up to Community Dialogue on Institutional Racism: Ø Derek Brindisi and Dr. Michael Hirsh, Imagine Worcester & World television streaming live http://www.wccatv.com/video/imagine-worcester/imagineworcester84 Ø Community Health Improvement CHIP: umassmed.edu/uploadedFiles/fmch/Community_Health/Worcester_CHIP_Priorities_Strategies_Dec2012.pdf; Ø Leadership and Practice to Reconcile Challenges in a Post–September 11th World” Presented at the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Conference, Columbia University by Virginia Swain and Dr. Sarah Sayeed, 2006;“Reconciliation as Policy: A Capacity–Building Proposal for Renewing Leadership and Development,” Presented at Columbia University as above, Swain and Sayeed, 2005; Ø Imagine Worcester & the World TV, Keesha LaTulippe, Joyce McNickles, Katie Howe Part !: http://www.wccatv.com/video/imagine-worcester/imagineworcester81; Part 2: http://www.wccatv.com/video/imagine-worcester/imagineworcester82 Ø Introducing Change in Resistant Systems, UMass Medical School Department of Quantititative Science. May 13, 2013. Presentation by Virginia Swain, Director, Institute for Global Leadership and Hosted by Jeroan Allison, M.D., M.S. Professor and Vice Chair, Associate Vice Provost for Health Disparities, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School Hosted by Jeroan Allison, M.D., M.S. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxWxKwdQdfPuem90TUluNklocWc/edit?pli=1