Webinar

Reducing Disparities and Controlling Hypertension in Primary Care

Date Wed, June 22nd

Time 1:00 PM ET

Dr. Lisa A. Cooper is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health.  She is also the James F. Fries Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and a core faculty member in the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, and she holds a joint appointment in the School of Nursing. 

Currently, Dr. Cooper directs The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, where she and her transdisciplinary teamwork with stakeholders from healthcare and the community to implement rigorous clinical trials, identifying interventions that alleviate racial and income disparities in social determinants and health outcomes. The Center also provides training to a new generation of health equity scholars and advocates for social change with policymakers.

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In this webinar you will learn:

  • Contributors to racial and socioeconomic disparities in hypertension control at the the level of individual patients, the community, health professionals, and the healthcare system
  • Three intervention approaches that hold promise for reducing disparities in hypertension control 
  • Key challenges and opportunities in advancing equity in hypertension control
Speakers:

Lisa Angeline Cooper, M.D., M.P.H.

Professor of Medicine 

Johns Hopkins Medicine