Resilience and Recovery: Health Care, Vaccines and The Road Back from COVID-19

Join The 19th for an afternoon of critical conversations on the nation's fight to defeat the COVID pandemic — and the lessons we've learned from it.

We'll hear from the top women leading the Biden-Harris administration's coronavirus response, state leaders blazing the trail in vaccine distribution, and the frontline researchers and health care workers battling misinformation and racial disparities as they race to get shots in arms.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, Chair, Biden-Harris COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force

Moderator: Shefali Luthra, Health Care Reporter, The 19th

Dr. Anne Zink, Alaska Chief Medical Officer

Moderator: Amanda Becker, Washington Correspondent, The 19th

Melissa E. Clarke, Consultant, Physician Clinical Transformation, 3M

Mojdeh Poul, EVP, Health Care Business Group, 3M

Omar Vargas, VP, Global Government Affairs, 3M

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles: “Brave”

Misinformation Nation
How to build trust — and get America vaccinated

Evelyn Perez-Verdia, CEO and Anti-Disinformation Advocate, We Are Más

Dr. Angela Rasmussen, Virologist/Affiliate, Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security

Dr. Amanda P. Williams, OB/GYN and Maternity Director, Kaiser Permanente, Northern California

Dr. Seema Yasmin, Public Health Doctor, Disease Disinformation Expert, Stanford University

Moderator: Jessica Malaty Rivera, Science Communication Lead, The COVID Tracking Project

Hear how a Black mother fought for equitable health care for her infant son — from repeat heart surgeries to COVID infections — amid a pandemic and a summer of racial reckoning.

Moderator: Ko Bragg, General Assignment Reporter, The 19th

Lessons Worth Learning
How COVID widened gaps in our health care systems — and what we can do about it.

Dr. Michelle Nichols, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs & Medical Director, Morehouse School of Medicine

Abigail Echo-Hawk, Director, Urban Indian Health Institute

Dr. Laura Erickson-Schroth, Psychiatrist, Hetrick-Martin Institute for LGBTQ+ Youth

Dr. Eva Galvez, Board Chair, Migrant Clinicians Network

Moderator: Samantha Artiga, VP and Director, Racial Equity and Health Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation

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The 19th Represents: Health Care, Vaccines and The Road Back from COVID-19