We cordially invite you to join us on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, from 10:00 am - 11:00 am ET, for World Health Day: Global Perspectives on the Social Determinants of Health, which will examine the social determinants of health with a focus on health equity. The event is sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in association with The International Society for Urban Health and NYU School of Global Public Health.

The COVID-19 crisis has revealed racial and economic disparities in baseline health, access to quality healthcare, and health outcomes in the U.S. and internationally. For example, while Black Americans represent only about 13% of the population in the states reporting racial/ethnic information of people who have died of COVID-19, they account for about 34% of total COVID-19 deaths in those states. 

Sir Michael Marmot, M.D., Chair of the Global Commission on Social Determinants of Health, Helene Gayle, M.D., CEO of the Chicago Community Trust, Mickey Chopra, M.D., Global Solutions Lead for Service Delivery for the World Bank, and Donald F. Schwarz, M.D., Senior Vice President at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will join the panel. The panel will be moderated by Jo Ivey Boufford of the International Society for Urban Health and NYU School of Global Public Health. They will discuss the social determinants of health and what actions governments, healthcare institutions, and the financial sector can take to create change. 

The event is open to the media and the public. All remarks will be on the record and the event will be recorded.