Webinar: Re-Imagining Policing for the Public’s Health

The third webinar in APHA’s Advancing Racial Equity series will:

• Describe how racism operates in policing and the limitations of reform efforts
• Discuss the acute and chronic health impacts of over policing on Black and Latinx communities
• Explain what “Re-Imagining Policing” means for public safety, public health and society overall; and
• Identify and address the ways in which policing occurs in public health and other sectors.

The presenters will include;

• Keon Gilbert, DrPH, MPA, Associate Professor of Behavioral Science and Health Education at Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice and Co-Founder of the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity
• Rashawn Ray, PhD, David M. Rubenstein Fellow at The Brookings Institution, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park
• Kanwarpal Dhaliwal, MPH, Co-founder and Associate Director of the RYSE Center and has served as Adjunct Faculty at San Francisco State University
• Omid Bagheri Garakani, MPH, Director of Equity and Community Partnership at JustLead Washington and Clinical Faculty at the University of Washington School of Public Health

The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A session with the webinar audience.