PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS BEING POSTPONED
We at the California Preterm Birth Initiative care deeply about the health and safety of our colleagues, partners and communities. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be postponing our March Collaboratory and will announce a new date as soon as possible. We at the California Preterm Birth Initiative care deeply about the health and safety of our colleagues, partners and communities. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be postponing our March Collaboratory and will announce a new date as soon as possible.
We all benefit from the dedication, sacrifice, and persistence of Black Scientists and Healthcare Professionals. As the second part of our three-part Kente Collaboratory series, this March we are celebrating Black excellence of the present day by honoring Black Scholars whose program of research, clinical practice, policy, and teaching aligns with or advances our mission, values, and vision. With a keynote address by Dr. Karen Scott, we are thrilled to honor Black Scholars from the departments of Family Health Care Nursing, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences in a pinning ceremony in recognition of their work. Please join us as we lift up the profound impact of Black leaders in science within our UCSF community!
We are proud to co-sponsor this event with UCSF's Multicultural Resource Center.
Program
5:00 - 5:30 PM | Dinner Reception
5:30 - 7:00 PM | Keynote and ceremony
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Karen A. Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG
Dr. Karen A. Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG, is a Reproductive. Justice (RJ) informed sexual, reproductive, and perinatal (SRP) epidemiologist and obstetric hospitalist whose work integrates the social sciences and humanities into participatory health services and quality improvement (QI) research. Dr. Scott is an Associate Clinical Professor and OBGYN Hospitalist in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Currently, she is the Principal Investigator of the SACRED Birth Study at UCSF, funded by the California Health Care Foundation.
As a "dissident, disruptive, and recovering" board-certified OBGYN and critical public health scholar, her work examines interventions to eliminate and reduce disparities and inequities in SRP health services provision, through the integration of a Black feminist and Reproductive Justice (RJ) Praxis, in the afterlife of slavery and passage of the Congressional Act of 1807 (which took effect in 1808, prohibiting further participation of the United States in the slave trade.). A Black feminist- RJ Praxis informs the ethical considerations, theoretical concepts, methods, and methodologies in her participatory research, practice, pedagogy, and policy analysis. She examines health service provision in antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum units as sites through which racism (structural, gendered, and obstetric) can be understood, described, measured, and modified within patient-clinician, patient-system, and community-system interactions, across time, place, and levels of power in the following continuum of care: clinical cognition, assessment, diagnosis, service provision, and decision-making processes.
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