About this Webinar
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Equity, is “when everyone has the opportunity to be as healthy as possible.” Exploring ways systems reforms can actively support every person where they have an opportunity to attain their full health potential. If the status quo continues the ‘disadvantaged’ are prevented from achieving this potential due to social position or other socially constructed scenarios. A systemic shift towards health for all impact on reduce impact of historic inequities including-differences in length of life; quality of life; rates of disease, disability, and death; severity of disease; and access to treatment.
Your Host
Kenneth McGill, EdS LMFT
Solution-Focused Care Senior Scientist at Opeeka
Panelists
Dr. Lonnie Snowden
Professor of Health Policy at UC Berkeley and Health Disparities Researcher
Lonnie Snowden is a professor of health policy and management at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health has an extensive history of engaging policy development efforts utilizing his research that focuses on mental health care access, quality, and equity, for racial and ethnic communities and underserved populations.
Snowden has served on numerous review and advisory committees for the National Institutes of Mental Health and Drug Abuse and various foundations. He contributed sections to the first-ever Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health and served as co-scientific editor of the supplement “Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity”: A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General.
Snowden’s numerous awards include the 2021 Presidential Citation, the Surgeon General’s Exemplary Service Award, APA’s Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy, and the Berkeley Citation. Most recently Snowden was an integral member of APA’s COVID-19 Workgroup and coauthored an article reviewing existing literature on African American-white disparities in COVID-19.
As a psychologist committed to breaking down social and political barriers, Snowden’s calm composure and steadfastness have propelled and influenced his path to increase access and effectiveness of mental health care for racial and ethnic communities and underserved populations.
Arshia Gratiot
Eupnoss Co-Founder and CEO
Arshia is a serial founder with an interest in the application of machine learning to solve everyday challenges Arshia began her career in technology working for Nokia and Microsoft. Soon after Arshia founded the first of three companies . Third Space Automation was a drone delivery company. Canary Sentinel was a digital health startup focused on developing health monitoring technologies for workers in high exposure environments. The latest feather in Arshia’s entrepreneurial journey is Eupnoos – a healthcare start-up transforming respiratory healthcare provision by taking lung function testing on to smartphones. Arshia is an avid believer in the need for more diversity in high tech industries.
Cynthia Orofo
Culture Care Collective Co-Founder
Cynthia is committed to advancing health innovation and entrepreneurship to improve health outcomes, valuing the significance of nursing involvement in developing novel and realistic solutions to contemporary health issues. Particularly in the age of rapidly advancing technology, interactive electronic platforms, virtual care delivery and education, and app development are of her particular interest to modernize interventions.
