Center Director Vickie Mays sat down with Stuart Wolpert to answer questions on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting Black Americans and her work on a bill requiring better data on the race and ethnicity of people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read the interview here.

Center Director Vickie Mays will speak as part of a panel Thursday, April 30, from 12 to 1:30 p.m on the health, economic, and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black communities during a virtual town hall meeting presented by the Minority Health Institute.

Other panelists include:

• Richard Allen Williams, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP*President and Founder, Minority Health Institute Clinical Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Past President, National Medical Association Founder, Association of Black Cardiologists
• David Pryor, MD MPH, Regional Vice President, Medical Director, Anthem
• Jehan (Gigi) El-Bayoumi, MD, FACP, Founding Director, Rodham Institute Professor of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
• Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, President, American Medical Association
• Oliver T. Brooks, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Watts HealthCare Corporation President, National Medical Association
• Muntu Davis, MD, MPH, County Health Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
• Gustavo Friederichsen, CEO, Los Angeles County Medical Association
• Lisa Barkley, MD, FAAFP, FSAHM, FACSM, Chair and Program Director, Family Medicine Residency, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
• Mia Keeys, MA, Director of Health Equity Policy & Advocacy, American Medical Association
• Reverend J. Edgar Boyd, Pastor, First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles

Register for this event here.

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Dr Vickie Mays was awarded the Academic Senate’s 2020 Senate Service Award for service to the university.

Each year the Senate Service Award is given to a faculty member who most demonstrates UCLA’s mission of education, research, and service.

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Center Director Dr. Vickie Mays received the Career Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award from the UCLA Academic Senate for her contributions in research, student development, and community service through research that focuses on women and ethnic minorities and community-based curricula that creates pathways into research and higher education for underrepresented communities. The award recognizes faculty, administrators, students, and staff who are especially successful in the fair and open environment the Office of the President strives to promote across the UC System. Read more… buy over the counter medicines

BRITE Center research study is seeking Koreans ages 18-19 to serve on our advisory board regarding a study of smoking among Korean youth.

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