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Is Inequality Inevitable?

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Is Inequality Inevitable?

This is an insight written by Stella Hudson on the recent Bahá’í Chair for World Peace Symposium on “Inequalities and the Increased Risk of Political Violence” co-sponsored by the Critical Race Initiative and the Department of African American Studies on  October 12, 2021.

What does class inequality have to do with health? According to Professor Kate Pickett, a lot. Dr. Pickett is an epidemiologist, but in her talk “How more equal societies reduce stress, restore sanity, and improve everyone’s wellbeing” she discusses exactly how inequality is bad for public health and well-being and came armed with the statistics to prove it.  Continue reading

Upcoming Virtual Event: The Colors of COVID-19: Confronting Health Disparities During a Global Pandemic

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Upcoming Virtual Event: The Colors of COVID-19: Confronting Health Disparities During a Global Pandemic

February 16, 2021

2pm – 3.30pm

Virtual – Register in advance at https://tinyurl.com/bahai-colors (link is external)

Professor Stephen B. Thomas, Professor, Health Policy and Management and Director, Maryland Center for Health Equity

Abstract: 

Never in our lives have we experienced such a global phenomenon. For the first time in history, the world has come together, focused on the same existential threat, consumed by the same fears and uncertainties, eagerly anticipating the same, yet unrealized, promises of medical science. In a matter of months, human civilization has been brought low by the novel SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), a microscopic parasite 10,000 times smaller than a grain of salt. COVID-19 attacks our physical bodies, but also the cultural foundations of our lives. Depending upon how we respond, our lives, and literally our way of life, hangs in the balance. Continue reading