-CDC, Deputy Director for Minority Health and Health Equity, Nov 2024-present
-CDC, Acting Deputy Director of Office of Health Equity(OHE), Feb 2023-Dec 2024
-CDC, Acting Director, Office of Equitable Population Health in OHE, Feb 2023-Sept 2024
-CDC, Deputy Director, Office of Minority Health and HealthEquity, Dec 2019-Feb 2023
-CDC, Deputy Dir OMMHE/Chief Minority Health Activity OMHHE Dec 2019-Sept 2022
-CDC, Deputy Assoc Dir for Science, Minority Health &Health Equity Science Team Lead, Oct 2018- Dec 2019
-CDC, Deputy Assoc Dir for Science at OMHHE, Aug 2016-Dec2019
-CDC, Lead Behavioral Scientist/Team Lead Morbidity and Behavioral Surveillance Team, March 2013-Aug 2016
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In an interview with GovLoop, Dr. Jeffrey Hall said he wants to take advantage of the popularity of equity post-COVID (read: BLM riots).
“With the window of opportunity that we have open expressing itself the way that it has, some of the conversations even, at a very basic level, that are now possible about equity were not as possible in times past,” Hall said. “We’re really trying to take advantage of this time to have equity be embedded within everything, to really, truly have it be at the center of all we do in ways that we’ve never had opportunities to do in the past."
Shouldn’t the center of all the CDC does be controlling and preventing diseases?
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In his article Combating Racism Through Research, Training, Practice and Public Health Policies, Dr. Jeffrey Hall says, “Academic organizations play an important role in perpetuating racism and its effects on health through institutional norms, pedagogy, and research practices.” That’s quite a statement, but he has a solution!
“Specifically, a need exists to ensure students in health-related fields are well trained to recognize and dismantle racism and to develop strategies to eliminate racism in their future professional practice.”
Our doctors need to be able to triage, diagnose, and heal actual injuries and illnesses—not search for racism.
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