The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host the seventh webinar in the Racial Disparity, Social Justice and the Opioid Crisis series Thursday, Oct. 29, from 1 to 3 p.m. (EST). This installment is titled “Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Health Care Disparity for the Black and Latinx Transgender Community.”
Black and Latinx transgender individuals face some of the greatest health care disparities while at the same time suffering acutely from a range of social determinants of health. The stress of daily battles with discrimination and stigma is a principle driver of higher rates of substance use in the transgender community, while a lack of culturally competent health care services also fuels high substance-use rates among transgender people. Join in for a roundtable discussion on how organizations across Cuyahoga County are intervening to address Black and Latinx transgender health disparities.
Anisi Daniels Smith, assistant professor of sociology at Rust College, will moderate the discussion.
The roundtable participants will be:
- Laura J. Mintz, internal medicine and pediatrics specialist at the Center for Reducing Health Disparities at MetroHealth Medical Center Cleveland;
- Shubham Gupta, director of gender and sexual diversity services and division chief of reconstructive urology at University Hospitals Urology Institute and associate professor at CWRU School of Medicine;
- Naazneen Diwan (she/they), QYou program coordinator at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Greater Cleveland; and
- Devinity Jones (She/Her/Hers), trans wellness and HIV prevention program coordinator at the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland.
This webinar activity has been approved for CEUs and RCHs for social workers and chemical dependency counselors.