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Cornell University

Diversity Center of Excellence

Education Core of the Cornell Center for Health Equity

Covid-19 STEM Community Education and Empowerment Internship Program Curriculum

This page lists recordings and slides of the CCEEIP sessions.

1.1 Introduction

Video

Slides

1.2 Virology and Pandemics

Speaker:
Tanya Rogo, MD
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Residency Program
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics, BronxCare Health System
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

1.3 COVID-19 Biology and Prevention

Speaker:
Anthony Ogedegbe, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Divisions of Hospital Medicine and Infectious Diseases
Weill Cornell Medicine/NY Presbyterian Hospital

Video

 

1.4 COVID-19 Disparities and Ripple Effect

Speaker:
Joseph Ravenell, MD, MS
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Associate Dean for Diversity Affairs and Inclusion
Director, Diversity in Research, Perlmutter Cancer Center
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Video

1.5 COVID-19 Pandemic Public Health Response

Speaker:
Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH
President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives
Senior Fellow for Global Health at Council on Foreign Relations
Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services
Former Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Video

 

1.6 COVID-19: the Global Perspective

Speaker:
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA
Director, ICAP at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
University Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine

Video

 

1.7 How Does the Immune System Work?

Speakers:
Joseph Osborne, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Radiology
Chief, Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Weill Cornell Medicine/NY Presbyterian Hospital

Kiel Michael Telesford, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate in Neuroscience
Weill Cornell Medical College

Video

 

1.8 How do vaccines work?

Speaker:
Christopher Bourne
Graduate Research Assistant and Ph.D. candidate
Weill Cornell Medicine/Sloan-Kettering: Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences

Video

Slides

1.9 COVID-19 vaccines

Speakers:
Kristen Marks, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases,
Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine/NY Presbyterian Hospital

Susana Morales, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Vice Chair, Diversity, Department of Medicine
Director, Diversity Center of Excellence
Cornell Center for Health Equity Weill Cornell Medicine

Linnie Golightly, MD
Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
Associate Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine/NY Presbyterian Hospital

Marcus Lambert, PhD
Associate Vice President for Research Strategy and Operations
Associate Professor of Public Health
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

Video

 

2.0 Vaccine concerns, confidence, hesitancy, and vaccine equity

Speaker:
Stella Safo, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
Icahn Mount Sinai Medical School

Video

Slides

 

2.1 Talking about vaccines

Speakers:
Carla Boutin-Foster, MD, MS
Professor, Department of Medicine
Associate Dean, Office of Diversity Education and Research
SUNY Downstate School of Medicine

Slides

Marlene Camacho-Rivera, ScD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Community Health Sciences
SUNY Downstate School of Public Health

Slides

Oni Blackstock, MD
Founder/Executive Director, Health Justice
Former Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of HIV,
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Slides

Video

 

2.2 COVID’s impact on New York City’s communities: the role of community based organizations; vaccine equity, community empowerment; where do we go from here?

Speakers:
Davon Russell, President
WHEDco—Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation

Guillermo Chacon, President
Latino Commission on AIDS

Video

Marcella J Tillett, LMSW
Vice President of Programs and Partnerships
Brooklyn Community Foundation

Video

2.3 Mental Wellness

Speakers:
Khadijah Booth Watkins, MD, MPH, DFAACAP
Associate Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training
Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Victor G. Carrion, M.D.
John A. Turner, M.D. Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Professor, and Vice-Chair Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences
Director, Early Life Stress and Resilience Program
Stanford University

Video

 

2.4 Final Session  (Cohort C)

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