In this interview, we discussed Dr. Schenita Randolph’s research with, not in, the Black community. Dr. Randolph co-leads the Community Engagement and Dissemination Core at the Duke REACH Equity Center. In this interview, she stresses the importance of the role of nurse leaders and the critical need to better understand racial inequities in health. She notes a major gap in the current science behind HIV prevention in women of color. The CDC provides evidence-based PrEP Best Practices but as Dr. Randolph points out, none exist for women or women of color. She is working to change that and currently leads a study entitled, A Salon-Based, Multi-level Intervention to Improve PrEP Uptake among Black Women living in the United States South, funded by Gilead Sciences, Inc. The CDC has called out racism as a public health emergency and priority but Dr. Randolph says more training on racial equity and lived experiences of scientists of color is needed among decision makers at funding agencies. She also reflects on Academia and the need to reexamine how scientists are evaluated. In conclusion, Dr. Randolph wants listeners to remember that diversity, equity, and inclusion are linked to real people.

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In this interview, we sat down with Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, MD, FAAFP, a Family Medicine and Primary Care Physician at Duke Family Medicine Center and an associate professor in Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke University. She is also a co-founder of the LatinX Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19 (LATIN-19), a group founded to advance health equity for the LatinX community. At the beginning of the interview, Dr. Martinez-Bianchi describes how this group was created and how the aims of the group are rooted in health promotion, reduction in health disparities, and social justice. Dr. Martinez-Bianchi describes the use of a health equity lens to consider the ways policy, systems, interventions, etc. affect certain groups of people. Dr. Martinez-Bianchi also discusses the importance of medical education rooted in health equity, activating communities to be involved in transforming healthcare and health systems, and the development of multilevel relationships to address health inequity.

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In this interview, we sit down with Dr. Bei Wu, an inaugural co-director of the Aging Incubator at New York University (NYU). She holds the position of Vice Dean for Research, dean’s professor in global health and director of global health and aging research at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. In this episode, Dr. Wu describes how she applies the principles of the Social Determinants of Health and the Life Course Perspective in studies on health disparities among rural populations in West Virginia, older adults, and Asian immigrants in the U.S.  She discusses the bias researchers should be mindful of when using existing data sources.  Dr. Wu also outlines how a newly funded research center at Rutgers and NYU for Asian health promotion and equity can advance research on cardiometabolic disease and mental health of Asian adults and foster the next generation of health disparities scholars.

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