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Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess | |||||||||
| Topic Homelessness and COVID-19 Description People experiencing homelessness and unstable housing situations are at high risk of contracting COVID-19. And the massive loss of livelihoods has placed millions more individuals and families at risk for homelessness. Please join Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) for a webinar in our series examining key challenges in the COVID-19 pandemic through a health and human rights lens. Medical and public health experts will discuss the particular challenges facing who are homeless face, and the programs and policies that are necessary to address these challenges now and going forward. The conversation will be moderated by PHR’s medical director, Michele Heisler, who is also a professor of internal medicine and public health at the University of Michigan Medical School. Featured panelists will be: ● Kelly Doran, MD, MHS, an emergency physician and assistant professor in the departments of emergency medicine and population health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine ● Margot Kushel, MD, professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations and the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, and practicing general internist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital ● Pascale Leone, director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Corporation for Supportive Housing Below, please sign up for the webinar and to receive periodic updates about our COVID-19 response efforts. You can unsubscribe at any time. We encourage you to submit questions for consideration to webinar@phr.org. Panelists will answer selected questions during the webinar. Time May 15, 2020 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Add to calendar Webinar ID 821 8113 0037 | |||||||||