A Hidden Pandemic: Mental Health,Trauma & Racial Healing

Written By L-Mani Viney

Earlier this month I was invited to be a guest panelist on a webinar hosted by the University of North Carolina School of Medicine Center for Health Equity Research and the Community-Campus for Partnerships for Health. The focus was exploring the challenges that COVID has placed on communities of color in the world and in education.
Fellow Panelists:
Kira H. Banks, PhD, is Associate Professor, Clinical Program, Department of Psychology at Saint Louis University

John Lowe, PhD, RN, FAAN is the current and founding director of the Center for Indigenous Nursing Research for Health Equity (INRHE) and the Endowed McKenzie Professor for Health Disparities Research Florida State University College of Nursing.

Wizdom Powell, PhD, is Director of the Health Disparities Institute and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UConn Health. Formerly, Dr. Powell was Associate Professor at Health Behavior at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and Research Associate Professor in UNC’s Department of Social Medicine.

For more info on the organization and their webinar series please click here.

L-Mani Viney
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