Columnist Kate Baggaley speaks to Center Director Vickie Mays and other experts about how past mistreatment by the medical community is factoring in to current efforts to recruit African-Americans for COVID-19 vaccination trials and how the current approach to testing the American population may need rethinking.

Read the full interview here.

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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.

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Dr Vickie Mays speaks on social distancing requirements for COVID-19 from a clinical psychologist point of view.

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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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