The event will be co-hosted by the Center for Health Equity and Urban Health Institute at Johns Hopkins University; SOURCE at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

There will be two panel discussions. The first will focus on the historical legacy of slavery for health equity, and the second with a focus on Baltimore.

PANELIST

• Lisa A. Cooper
  Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Health Equity
  Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health
• Jeremy A. Greene
  William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• Rev. Debra Hickman
  Resident/CEO Sisters Together And Reaching, Inc (STAR)
• Lawrence Jackson
  Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History
  Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
• Jessica Marie Johnson
  Assistant Professor
  Department of History
  Johns Hopkins University
• Bishop Douglas Miles
  Pastor, Koinonia Baptist Church
  Co-chairman, Baltimoreans United in Leadership (BUILD)
• Elizabeth O’Brien
  Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine
  Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• Deirde Cooper Owens
  Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine
  University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Karen Kruse Thomas
  Historian, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health