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Friday, April 8 • 1:40pm - 3:00pm
The tyranny of geography: Place, race and the social determinants of health

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By now we all know the statistics. Where we live, eat, play, work and go to school has a much larger overall impact on our health than any time we spend at a doctor’s office. In Cleveland, residents living in the city’s East Side Hough neighborhood have a life expectancy about 24 years shorter, on average, than their wealthier counterparts in a suburb only eight miles east. Yet despite efforts to change this reality, there’s evidence the problem is worsening in many areas, with income inequality deepening and health inequities rising. What are the biggest obstacles to progress, and how are those on the front lines —doctors, community health workers and residents — breaking them down?
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Brie Zeltner

Brie Zeltner is a health reporter at The Plain Dealer, Ohio’s largest newspaper. She has been a reporter since 2003, working primarily on the newspaper’s health team. For more than a year, she’s written about public health and how growing up in poverty can affect health over... Read More →

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Delores Gray

Delores Gray is the community engagement coordinator at Care Alliance Health Center, one of the nation’s original Health Care for the Homeless pilot programs. Gray was raised in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood, attended Cuyahoga Community College, and moved into Cuyahoga Metropolitan... Read More →
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Edward M. Barksdale Jr.

Edward M. Barksdale Jr., M.D., is surgeon-in-chief of University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital where he holds the Robert J. Izant Jr., M.D., endowed chair in pediatric surgery and is professor of surgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Barksdale... Read More →
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Kate Fox Nagel

Kate Fox Nagel, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., is the chief administrative officer of Care Alliance Health Center, a federally qualified health center dedicated to meeting the medical, dental and supportive services needs of those experiencing homelessness, living in public housing, and the underserved... Read More →
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Sarah A. Redding

Sarah A. Redding, M.D., M.P.H., is the chief executive officer for Care Coordination Systems. She is the co-founder and former executive director of the Community Health Access Project in Mansfield, Ohio, a nonprofit organization employing community health workers. She worked to develop... Read More →

Friday April 8, 2016 1:40pm - 3:00pm EDT
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