Systematic Inequities or Institutional Discrimination

Presenter Information

Tomoko Udo, University at Albany, State University of New YorkFollow

Start Date

28-6-2021 10:55 AM

End Date

28-6-2021 11:40 AM

Session Chair

Tomoko Udo

Abstract

This session will be focusing on these three abstracts:

1.Towards a Framework for Addressing Immigrants’ Social Determinants of Health

2.Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Housing Insecurity

Author Bio

Dr. Tomoko Udo is Associate Professor at Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior, and Co-Associate Director, the Center for Collaborative HIV Research in Policy and Practice at School of Public Health, University at Albany. Since early summer 2020, she has also been serving a role of a Health Policy Advisor for COVID for the University. Under her title, she contributed to implementation of several programs and policies that helped the UAlbany manage outbreak of COVID-19 among the campus population. During early pandemic when New York State became one of the COVID-19 epicenters, she also participated in several studies in collaboration with New York State Department of Health that provided key information about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, clinical presentation of COVID-19 in children, and seroprevalence of SARS-CoV2 in New York State. Aside from COVID-19-related research, the overarching goal of Dr. Udo’s research program is to identify ways to improve health care for individuals with various addictive behaviors, including drug abuse and behaviors partly overlap with drug addiction such as binge eating/obesity, as well as other mental health problems. Her research utilizes a wide range of methodologies, from basic laboratory behavioral experiments, quasi-experimental studies, secondary data analysis of epidemiological data, to community-engaged research. As a PI and co-I, she directs both internally and externally funded on- projects to evaluate innovative programs that encourage harm reduction behaviors in persons who use drugs, including linkage to substance use treatment, that are implemented by the New York State Department of Health, local police departments, a county jail, and local harm reduction providers, with a goal to identify strategies to more widely promote these programs in the communities with different resources and environment.

Document Type

Event

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