Dartmouth Health Continuing Education for Professionals Home, Medicine Grand Rounds - Structural Inequity, Racial and Ethnic Disparities and Infectious Diseases: Are There Sustainable Solutions?, 8/7/2020 8:00:00 AM - 8/7/2023 9:00:00 AM, Dr. Ojikutu reviews COVID-19 and HIV data from several sources that all point out the disparate rates of cases, hospitalizations and deaths between White, Black and Latin populations. She discusses systemic inequities and social determinants of health that contribute to higher rates of death from COVID-19, including lack of health insurance, crowded living conditions and employment in an essential worker role. Dr. Ojikutu suggests collecting better and more refined epidemiologic data on infectious diseases, and investment in community based institutions and leaders to reduce mistrust of the health care system and increase patient engagement.
Presenter
Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Divisions of Global Health Equity and Infectious Disease, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Division of Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital
About our Presenter
Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, completed her residency in Primary Care/Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and an Infectious Disease Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She received her MPH from Harvard School of Public Health and was a Commonwealth Fund/Mongan Fellow in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University.
Learning Outcome(s)
Participants will be able to discuss available data and root causes of racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 and infectious diseases in the US, including HIV, and explore sustainable solutions from the perspective of clinical providers and public health practitioners.
Disclosure
In accordance with the disclosure policy of Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth as well as standards set forth by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education and the Nursing Continuing Education Council standards set forth by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation, continuing medical education and nursing education activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have been asked to disclose any financial relationship* they have to a commercial interest (any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients). Such disclosure is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation, but is elicited to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a given activity.
The following Activity Physician Director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have reported the following financial interest or relationship* with various companies/organizations. The Activity Director and Planning Committee member roles were resolved by altering the individual’s control over content about the products or services of the commercial interest by the Associate Dean for CME and the Department of Medicine Chair. All potential conflict(s) were resolved.
* Kelly Kieffer, MD ~ her spouse is a consultant for OcculoBio.
* Richard I. Rothstein, MD ~ has research support from Baranova (research grant to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for Allurion.
Other planning committee member(s), speaker(s), activity director(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for this program report no financial interest or relationship* with any company(ies) or organizations whose product may be germane to the content of their presentations.
*A “financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.
Bibliographic Material
See presentation for bibliographic sources to allow for further study.
Presenter
Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Divisions of Global Health Equity and Infectious Disease, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Division of Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital
About our Presenter
Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, completed her residency in Primary Care/Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and an Infectious Disease Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She received her MPH from Harvard School of Public Health and was a Commonwealth Fund/Mongan Fellow in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University.
Learning Outcome(s)
Participants will be able to discuss available data and root causes of racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 and infectious diseases in the US, including HIV, and explore sustainable solutions from the perspective of clinical providers and public health practitioners.
Disclosure
In accordance with the disclosure policy of Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth as well as standards set forth by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education and the Nursing Continuing Education Council standards set forth by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation, continuing medical education and nursing education activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have been asked to disclose any financial relationship* they have to a commercial interest (any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients). Such disclosure is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation, but is elicited to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a given activity.
The following Activity Physician Director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have reported the following financial interest or relationship* with various companies/organizations. The Activity Director and Planning Committee member roles were resolved by altering the individual’s control over content about the products or services of the commercial interest by the Associate Dean for CME and the Department of Medicine Chair. All potential conflict(s) were resolved.
* Kelly Kieffer, MD ~ her spouse is a consultant for OcculoBio.
* Richard I. Rothstein, MD ~ has research support from Baranova (research grant to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for Allurion.
Other planning committee member(s), speaker(s), activity director(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for this program report no financial interest or relationship* with any company(ies) or organizations whose product may be germane to the content of their presentations.
*A “financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.
Bibliographic Material
See presentation for bibliographic sources to allow for further study.
