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Full Agenda
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Day 2   (Monday, June 28)

Last updated on Mon Oct 23 2023 14:57:13 (Eastern Standard Time)

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Opening
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM
Keynote Address Racial Disparities in COVID-19: Implications for Long Haulers Syndrome
Moderator: Lynn Warner, Dean of School of Social Welfare, University at Albany
  • Keynote Speaker: Kitaw Demissie, Dean and Professor, School of Public Health, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Stress and Adapting to New Technology
Session Chair: Masahiro Yamamoto, Associate Professor, University at Albany
Positive Impacts on Health Disparities for Kinship Caregivers Using Technologies New to Them: Lessons Learned about Virtual Peer Support Services Compelled by COVID-19
  • Author: Karen Coen Flynn, Senior Research Scientist, University at Albany
  • Presenter: Rae Glaser, Director of the NYS Kinship Navigator, Catholic Family Center
Discovering Differential Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Education Workforce
  • Presenter: Kristen Wilcox, Associate Professor, University at Albany
  • Author: Francesca Durand, Associate Professor, The Sage Colleges
  • Author: Hal Lawson, Professor, University at Albany
  • Author: Aaron Leo, Post-doctoral Fellow-NYKids, University at Albany
  • Author: Kathryn Schiller, Associate Professor and Chair, University at Albany
10:10 AM - 10:55 AM
Mitigating Outbreaks
Session Chair: Samantha Friedman, Associate Professor of Sociology, University at Albany
Forward Together: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Mitigating COVID-19 Outbreaks at One of the Nation’s Most Diverse Universities
  • Presenter: Jayson Kratoville, Interim Director of the National Center for Security and Preparedness, University at Albany
  • Author: Tomoko Udo, Associate Professor, Co-Associate Director, Center for Collaborative HIV Research in Policy and Practice, University at Albany
Novel Commercial Protective Face Mask Technology to Mitigate Disparities in Personal Safety
  • Presenter: Kevin Shah, Graduate Researcher, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
  • Author: Lulian Gherasoiu, Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
  • Author: Michael Fasullo, Associate Professor of Nanobioscience, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
  • Author: Harry Efstathiadis, Associate Professor of Nanoengineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Selecting and Training Contact Tracers to Address Minority Health Disparities:  Lessons from COVID-19
  • Author: Aileen Dowden, Doctoral Student, University at Albany
  • Author: Dev Dalal, Assistant Professor, University at Albany
  • Author: Gabrielle Danna, Doctoral Student, University at Albany
  • Presenter: Jason Randall, Assistant Professor, University at Albany
10:55 AM - 11:40 AM
Systematic Inequities or Institutional Discrimination
Session Chair: Tomoko Udo, Associate Professor, Co-Associate Director, Center for Collaborative HIV Research in Policy and Practice, University at Albany
Towards a Framework for Addressing Immigrants’ Social Determinants of Health
  • Presenter: Dina Refki, Clinical Associate Professor and Executive Director, University at Albany
  • Presenter: Rukhsana Ahmed, Chair/Associate Professor of Communication, University at Albany
  • Presenter: Jeanette Altarriba, Dean, University at Albany
  • Author: Andrea Shaw, Assistant Professor, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Housing Insecurity
  • Presenter: Samantha Friedman, Associate Professor of Sociology, University at Albany
  • Author: Mayuko Nakatsuka, Doctoral student, University at Albany
  • Author: Yi Lu, Doctoral student, University at Albany
11:40 AM - 12:20 PM
Community Collaborations during COVID-19
Moderator: Kenya James, Senior Director, Healthcare Association of New York State
  • Panelist: Bonnie Reyna, Senior Director of Equity and Community Engagement, Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth)
  • Panelist: Nancy Manigat, Chief Operating Officer, CN Guidance & Counseling Services
  • Panelist: Ninfa Segarra, Senior Vice President Government & Communtiy Afffairs, Chief Diversity Officer, SBH Health System
12:20 PM - 12:30 PM
Closing Remark