Session 2: Racial Health Disparities
This session will cover the threats and growing challenges to realizing health equity and key advocacy strategies to overcome these threats and challenges, such as how improving and expanding Medicaid, transforming the delivery of care, advancing data justice and assuring accountability for achieving health equity, and centering impacted people and places.
Presenter: Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, PhD
About Rebecca
Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of
Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University, where she is also Assistant Director of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services. As a medical anthropologist, she investigates the intersections of health disparities, access to health care, economic transformation, and activism in Appalachia. Her research is published in several journals, including Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Economic Anthropology, and Journal of Appalachian Health. She is co-editor of two books, Appalachia Revisited:
Regional Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress (2017) and Engaging Appalachia: A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability (2023).