As COVID-19 has illuminated the pre-existing disparities in health care, it has also shown us the mental health inequities that face disadvantaged populations. Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities face higher rates of COVID-19 which is a result of the existing health inequities they are faced with. These communities are now faced with additional mental stress that the pandemic brings. On Thursday, August 6 at 11:00am ET, join the Aspen Global Innovators Group to hear from 2020 Aspen Healthy Communities Fellow Erasma Monticciolo Executive Director of Power of Two and psychiatrist and associate professor at UC Davis, Ruth Shim. This conversation will be moderated by Dior Vargas, Latina feminist mental health activist and creator of the People of Color and Mental Illness Photo Project.
How can we address mental health inequities in the time of COVID-19?
Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.
Date
Thu Aug 6, 2020
11:00am – 11:30am
11:00am – 11:30am
Location
Virtual
Contact
Danielle Kirby
Danielle is a Finance Associate of Aspen Global Innovators Group
Vrinda Batra
Vrinda Batra is an Administrative and Executive Associate at the Aspen Institute’s Global Innovators Group (AGI). There, she supports AGI’s programs on long-term community resilience that aim to advance global health equity. This includes planning and executing flagship AGI convenings at the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York and the annual Aspen Ideas Health and Festival in Colorado, among others.
Vrinda completed her Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University in December 2022, where she worked as an Editorial Assistant for the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Her studies focused on gender, development, and security in South Asia. While at Georgetown, Vrinda was also a Research Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center and a Graduate Consultant with nonprofit HasNa. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Humanities from O.P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat, India.
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