Join us to honor, celebrate, and raise awareness of the contributions that community health workers make to the lives of New Yorkers. Community health workers play a crucial role in the public healthcare system, helping people address barriers to well-being that are known as “the social determinants of health,” including homelessness and housing-quality issues, financial and food insecurity, inadequate access to transportation, and legal problems.
What are the joys, challenges, and critical issues surrounding their role today? What role do the arts play in illuminating their stories? This evening will include conversations and presentations by community health workers, artists, and clinicians, followed by a reception and an opportunity to see the exhibition LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity.
This gathering was planned in collaboration with the Arts in Medicine department of New York City Health + Hospitals, and was inspired by LaToya Ruby Frazier’s work More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021–2022, currently on view in the Monuments of Solidarity exhibition. It coincides with the third anniversary of the community health workers program at NYC Health + Hospitals, known as the Public Health Corps.
This event is free, but RSVP here.
Panelists
Kasha Caesar, Assistant Director of the Asthma & COPD CHW Program, NYC H+H
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Artist
Nichola Davis, MD, MS, Chief Population Health Officer, NYC H+H
Oscar Martinez, Community Health Worker, Elmhurst Hospital, NYC H+H
Moderators
Leo Gordon Eisenstein, MD, Primary Care Doctor at Kings County Hospital, NYC H+H
Larissa W. Trinder, Assistant Vice President, Arts in Medicine, NYC H+H
This event is cohosted by Arts in Medicine department of New York City Health + Hospitals and MoMA. Funding to support the Arts in Medicine department at NYC Health + Hospital is made possible by Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.
Accessibility
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