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Sharing some information I’ve been gathering from Black medical professionals on #COVID19 (disparities, vaccines, etc.) Here is a love letter from the @BCAgainstCOVID, signed by Black medical professionals from across the county https://blackcoalitionagainstcovid.org/loveletter-read-more/
Kizzmekia Corbett, PHD is a viral immunologist who is scientific lead at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) Coronavirus Team at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. She leads work on developing novel coronavirus vaccines
@KizzyPhD
@KizzyPhD
Here is a recent CNN article on Dr. Corbett https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/us/african-american-scientists-vaccine-development-trnd/index.html
Dr. Robert Drummond also does a very good job at breaking down how vaccine trials work, and really demystifying immunology for folx. (Instagram page - dr.robertdrummond
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CIOUxuji3-h/?igshid=egf5pe76q1fc
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CIOUxuji3-h/?igshid=egf5pe76q1fc
@blackdoctor had a panel with leading medical experts on COVID-19. Panelists Dr. Doris Browne, Dr. Randall C. Morgan Jr., MD, MBA, Leon McDougle, MD, MPH, Dr. James E.K. Hildreth, Dr. Reeds Tuckson, Kizzmekia Corbett, PHD, Stephaun Wallace, PhD, and Dr. Michelle McMurry-Heath
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=380469046604183&id=87057506193
Here are some of the handles of the speakers @JamesEKHildreth @DrMichelleBIO @imstephaunelite @KizzyPhD
Here are some of the handles of the speakers @JamesEKHildreth @DrMichelleBIO @imstephaunelite @KizzyPhD
Ellis Dean, a reporter with http://BlackDoctor.org has been reporting extensively on COVID19 and the Black community
https://muckrack.com/ellis-dean/articles
Dean also hosts Black Doctors Speak, a bi-weekly series of conversations on @blackdoctor
https://muckrack.com/ellis-dean/articles
Dean also hosts Black Doctors Speak, a bi-weekly series of conversations on @blackdoctor
@uche_blackstock is founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity. She’s both a frontline healthcare worker and health justice advocate who has been actively engaging and providing folx with information on COVID.
She is featured on @FlipScriptPod, a podcast focused on health disparities hosted by @MaxJordan_N, a MD candidate at Yale who is also do a significant amount of advocacy and research https://soundcloud.com/yaleuniversity/entrenched-in-racism?in=yaleuniversity/sets/flip-the-script
Here is a recent article from the New England Journal of Health, Trustworthiness before Trust — Covid-19 Vaccine Trials and the Black Community https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2030033
@MeharryMedical is currently being lead by @JamesEKHildreth, who is also a member of the @US_FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee
Here is a recent interview in which Dr. Hildreth elaborates on the vaccine review and distribution process.
Here is a recent interview in which Dr. Hildreth elaborates on the vaccine review and distribution process.
@MSMEDU (Morehouse School of Medicine) is being led by @MSMPres, Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice. Here is a recent op-ed she wrote with @HarvardChanDean Dr. Michelle A. Williams. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/covid-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-moderna-black-hesitancy-20201202.html
Here is Dr. Williams speaking about the future of public health, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic
Pinning this thread and adding to it as often as possible for those who would like to hear more from Black folx on the frontlines and in the labs.
Here is the YouTube Video of the panel
