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"Implicit bias training in the healthcare setting: Challenges and future directions"

Despite an increasing effort to reduce implicit bias among healthcare professionals in recent years, there is limited empirical evidence to support the effectiveness of implicit bias training that is currently available. In this presentation, Dr. Nao Hagiwara will first review major challenges with mitigating providers' implicit bias. She will then discuss the importance of both drawing on social psychology research of intergroup bias and using the clinical and translational science framework to address those challenges.

Dr. Hagiwara is a Professor of Public Health Sciences and Director of the Program on Health Disparities and Community Engagement Research at the University of Virginia. She is a leading researcher in the field of healthcare providers bias and racial disparities in healthcare and health. With a training background in basic experimental social psychology, she grounds her applied disparities research in social psychology theories of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. To date, she has obtained multiple NIH grants on provider implicit bias and published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Her recent work on provider implicit bias has appeared in flagship journals, including the Lancet, as well as popular media outlets, such as CNN and New York Times. She is the recipient of the 2023 Diversity in Research Award from the Social Personality Health Network.

“Addressing Racial Disparities in Maternal Health: A Collaborative Approach”

Dr. Lucinda Canty is a certified nurse-midwife, Associate Professor of Nursing and Director of Seedsworks Health Equity in Nursing Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her BSN from Columbia University and her MSN from Yale University, specializing in nurse-midwifery, and her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include the prevention of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, reducing racial and ethnic health disparities in reproductive health, promoting diversity in nursing, and eliminating racism in nursing and midwifery. She is an artist, poet, and historian. She currently hosts web discussions Overdue Reckoning on Racism in Nursing. She is the founder of Lucinda’s House, a Black Maternal Health Collective to promote maternal health equity through community collaboration and programs that provide support and education.

In her talk, Dr. Canty will be discussing the current state of maternal health, her research into the experience of Black women who experienced life-threatening complications and how everyone, all healthcare team members, can address racial disparities in maternal health. 

Title: LGBT life in Thailand: Past, Current, and Future Situations

Dr. Priyoth Kittiteerasack is an assistant professor at the Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing at Thammasat University in Thailand. He also serves as a head of the Thammasat University Research Unit in Health, Educational, and Social Equity in Sexual and Gender Diversity. He has more than 10 years of experience in teaching, research, and leadership in nursing. His research focuses on mental health disparities, especially depression and suicide, among multicultural sexual and gender minority individuals in Asia and beyond.

Join us as Dr. Kittiteerasack discusses:

• Minority stress model and how these stressors impact LGBT mental health
• LGBT situations in Thailand, including laws, policy, religion, social settings, gender affirmative surgery, etc. 
• LGBT social movements in Thailand