How Racism Impacts Public Health
November 5th, 2020
What is public health? What is mental health? How do both public and mental health relate to racism? Does racism impact your own experience with a doctor, therapist, or healthcare provider? Do certain diseases impact people of some races more or less than others? Join BioBus for our third Student Town Hall on Racism and Society with special guests Dr. Howard Crumpton (Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Author), Dr. Tenyá Blackwell (Director of Community Engagement and Research at Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health), and Dr. Nikesha Gilmore (Clinical Research Scientist and Research Assistant Professor at University of Rochester Medical Center) on Thursday November 5th at 4pm ET!
Guest Speakers

Dr. Howard Crumpton
Clinical Psychologist and Principal Owner of Reach Out Therapy (ROThx)
Dr. Crumpton is a highly experienced licensed clinical psychologist who is skilled in providing therapy, assessment and consultation services in-person or online (telehealth) in English and Spanish. He is the Principal Owner of Reach Out Therapy (ROThx), a private company based in the DC Metro area that provides in-person and online therapeutic services for children, adults and families looking to address areas of life that need improvement, including those that are already going well. ROThx also provides psychological evaluation and consultation services for professionals and institutions in the fields of medicine, education, social welfare and correction (DoC) looking to learn more about how to support individual team members, improve collaboration among team members, or manage and improve wellness for target populations.

Dr. Tenyá Blackwell
Director of Community Engagement and Research at Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health
Dr. Blackwell has a very unique and diverse background in environmental science, research, advocacy, and public health education. She has worked as an environmental laboratory chemist for over 14 years in private industry where she sampled and analyzed air and water pollutants, and other cancer-causing chemicals and environmental toxins. She left the private industry to work as a STEM Education Consultant for the New York Academy of Science. She has also collaborated with community organizations such as WEACT for Environmental Justice and the Arthur Ashe Institute of Urban Health on various EJ and health equity issues. Dr. Blackwell also developed a school-based curriculum on asthma for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and has completed an environmental health policy fellowship with the University of California at San Francisco.
Tenyá holds a Bachelors degree in Chemistry, a Masters in Environmental Technology and Engineering, and a Doctorate of Public Health, with a focus on Environmental / Occupational Health and Epidemiology. Having been a “women of child-bearing age” working in hazardous environments, Tenyá is fully committed to protecting women’s, children’s, and overall environmental public health through education, advocacy and policy change. She recognizes that her story as an African American woman from a low-income underserved community in Brooklyn is vital to addressing the injustices faced with environmental exposures and resulting social determinants and poor health outcomes.

Dr. Nikesha Gilmore
Immunologist
Dr. Gilmore is a clinical research scientist with over 9 years’ biomedical research experience and 4 years of experience in clinical research and management in therapeutic areas of immunology, immune-oncology, and urologic and geriatric oncology. She is currently Research Assistant Professor at University of Rochester Medical Center where she conducts research to understand the immunological mechanisms in cancer and the ways by which immunological factors can be exploited to identify patients at risk of increased frailty after receiving chemotherapy. Dr. Gilmore also works on the development of interventions to target frailty in older adults with cancer after receiving adjuvant treatment for colon cancer.
