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DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 Pandemic in the SF Bay Area & the Societal Inequities 
 Exposed\n\nWhen: Wednesday, Sep 16 @ 10:00 AM PT \n\nCost: FREE\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2020-09-16/community-matters-ucsf-and-bay-areas-fight-against-covid-19\n\nLivestream: 
 https://www.facebook.com/thecommonwealthclub/\n\nOn the exact 6-month 
 anniversary of San Francisco’s shelter-in-place ordnance, UCSF infectious 
 disease experts look back at what we’ve learned about the strengths and 
 weaknesses of our public health systems and look forward to the next stage 
 of the fight against COVID-19.\n\nPanelists will discuss how the pandemic 
 has taken advantage of inequities in our society to continue spreading 
 despite the region’s early response—and the growing understanding that 
 stemming the tide of COVID-19 will require much greater support for 
 low-income essential workers, incarcerated populations, and others least 
 able to protect themselves.\n\nThey will explore how partnerships between 
 community leaders, UCSF scientists, and public health officials are 
 pointing the way forward to a more just, equitable and effective response 
 to the pandemic.\n\nPANELISTS:\n\nJoe DeRisi, Ph.D., is Tomkins Professor 
 in the Department of Biochemistry at UCSF and co-director of the Chan 
 Zuckerberg Biohub, an independent research institute dedicated to 
 eradicating disease. DeRisi has a long history as a “virus detective” 
 and inventor. During the severe testing backlog at the start of the 
 pandemic, his team built a state-of-the-art COVID-19 testing center in 8 
 days, which soon became the hub for processing test kits from public health 
 departments across the state.\n\nDiane Havlir, M.D., is chief of the UCSF 
 Division of HIV, Infectious Disease and Global Medicine. At the start of 
 the pandemic, Havlir—who is a veteran of the fight against AIDS—joined 
 forces with Latinx community leaders such as Jon Jacobo of the Latino Task 
 Force for COVID-19, to document inequalities in the pandemic’s impact on 
 low-income workers and their families, and to link those infected with the 
 support they need to go into isolation. This “test-to-care” approach 
 has become a model for similar efforts across the country. \n\nJon Jacobo, 
 of the Latino Task Force for COVID-19, helped spearhead the group’s 
 partnership with UCSF, called Unidos En Salud, and has worked for policy 
 changes to support low-income essential workers during the pandemic, in 
 partnership with the City and County of San Francisco Department of Public 
 Health. Jacobo is director of engagement and policy for TODCO Group, a San 
 Francisco affordable housing and advocacy nonprofit, and an appointed 
 commissioner overseeing the San Francisco Department of Building 
 Inspection.\n\nBrie Williams, M.D., M.S., is a professor in the UCSF 
 Division of Geriatrics and founding director of UCSF Amend, an initiative 
 dedicated to transforming correctional culture to improve the health of 
 people living and working in America’s prisons. Her research has pushed 
 for changes in how California’s prisons have handled outbreaks during the 
 pandemic, not only to protect prisoners and prison workers, but to prevent 
 spill-over into the community at large.\n\nModerator Kirsten 
 Bibbins-Domingo, Ph.D., M.D., M.A.S., is vice dean for population health 
 and health equity at the UCSF School of Medicine and director of the UCSF 
 COVID-19 Community Public Health Initiative. She has written about how the 
 pandemic has created “two Californias”—those with the privilege of 
 sheltering in place, and the low-income workers who have been forced to 
 choose between keeping food on the table and protecting their families from 
 the virus\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/14/18836629.php
SUMMARY:The COVID-19 Pandemic in the SF Bay Area & the Societal Inequities Exposed
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/14/18836629.php
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