Health equity is the topic of this two-part REAL TALK presentation. Part 2 of “RACISM Is a Public Health Crisis: Impacts on Health, Healthcare Access, and Quality of Care” will focus on racism's impact and direct correlation to chronic health issues such as diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, women's health, infant mortality, malnutrition and toxic stressors—and the impact that racism and discrimination have on access to quality health care. Meet the unwavering state, county and city leaders who forcefully name racism as a public health crisis and are actively combating and dismantling the systems, infrastructures and belief systems that perpetuate it. The series will be hosted by the Kent League of Women Voters, under the direction of board member Sally Saltzman, who chairs the LWV Kent Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, and committee member FayAnn Sebaly. The event is free and open to the public. 

To register and see the names and affiliations of the speakers, click here. To see these segments after the scheduled dates and earlier ones on voting rights access and education, go to the REAL TALK website.