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Jun 29, 2022 A Look at Black Women in the Workplace on Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race Ending Racism

The February 24, 2022 session of Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race discussed Black women in the workplace with featured guest speaker Linda Goler Blount, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, a national ...

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Jun 29, 2022 Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race Held on March 25 Ending Racism

In honor of Women’s History Month, a conversation with African American women who are leaders at RWJBarnabas Health was held on March 25, 2021 on the intersectionality of being Black and a woman, the need to “shift” or code-switch, and how this behavior ...

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Jun 29, 2022 Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race: Understanding the Impact of Microaggressions Ending Racism

The April 29, 2021 segment of Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race focused on microaggressions – a subtle, often unconscious prejudice that results in discrimination against a member of an oppressed or marginalized group with Jennifer R. Jones-Damis, ...

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Jun 17, 2022 RWJBarnabas Health Recognizes Juneteenth Ending Racism

Today, RWJBarnabas Health joins others in celebrating Juneteenth and commemorating that moment – one that has taken on new significance in recent months and years. On June 19, 1865, two months after the effective end of the Civil War and more than two ...

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Jun 10, 2022 RWJBH Black Executive Alliance Kicks-Off Inaugural Mentorship Program Cohort Ending Racism

Participants of the Black Executive Alliance’s Inaugural Mentorship Cohort (Front row, left to right): Sabrina Keller, Diana Bellamy, Francine Jackson-Childs, Douglas M. Peterson, Letwana Bryant, Naomi Brooks (Back row, left to right): Meilledjine ...

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Apr 12, 2022 Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race Ending Racism

The June 24, 2021 session of Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race featured a virtual performance with the New Jersey Mental Health Players, an interactive program for healthcare workers. According to the Mental Health Services of America, people of ...

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Apr 12, 2022 Changing The Definition of Health Ending Racism

In this video DeAnna Minus-Vincent, Executive Vice President Chief Social Justice & Accountability Officer at RWJBarnabas Health invites us to look at healthcare differently – by including social, economic, and educational outcomes as part of the equation ...

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Apr 11, 2022 Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race – The Importance of Clinical Trials for People of Color Ending Racism

The March 2022 session of Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race with panelists Anroy K. Ottley, MD , general surgeon, Jersey City Medical Center; Sabiha Hussain, MD , pulmonologist, Rutgers Health; and Joseph Jaeger, Chief Academic Officer, Monmouth ...

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Mar 16, 2022 RWJBarnabas Health Board of Trustees Explore the Foundation of the System’s Ending Racism Together on ‘Medically Necessary’ Podcast Ending Racism

This week, Celeste Warren – the Vice President of the Diversity & Inclusion Center of Excellence at Merck, member of the RWJBH Board of Trustees, and Chair of the Board's Ending Racism Together committee – sits down with Dr. Jim Salwitz and Chris Hoenig to ...

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