Convergence: The Pandemics of COVID-19 and Health Disparities

Presented by AIA Central Valley’s Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committees

Overview: This lively and informative event features local healthcare panelists, who will share their personal experiences in Sacramento’s current healthcare system, the effects of the COVID-19 global pandemic, and how they’re currently addressing inequities among marginalized groups in our community.

• Garen Wintemute, MD, MPH, Emergency Medicine Physician & Professor, UC Davis School of Medicine
• Katherine E. Steadwell, National Facilities Services (NFS) Equity, Inclusion & Diversity Council Chair, Kaiser Permanente
• Matías Castro, Sexual Health Coordinator, Sacramento LGBT Center
• Carol Bradley, Disability Compliance Officer, Sutter Health

Architects from the Chapter’s healthcare and equity diversity & inclusion committees will ask questions that focus on approaches and solutions that can remediate and improve community health in our region.

Zoom link will be provided to registered participants.

The event will be recorded and available to the public on the Chapter’s Vimeo afterwards.

Cost: $10 + optional donation to the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services: https://support.sacramentofoodbank.org/AIA

Register: https://ea20-convergence.eventbrite.com

Event led by: Teresa Endres, AIA, Caitlin Stevens, AIA and Casey Wong, Assoc. AIA

Sponsors: Comstock’s Magazine, Fulcrum Properties, Lionakis, Milgard Windows & Doors, SMUD, US CAD.

Experience Architecture is a public-outreach event designed by AIA Central Valley to facilitate greater transparency with the public in how architects create our built environment and how it impacts their daily lives; to create an ongoing dialogue to inform a distinct, regional, architectural identity; and to highlight existing relationships between the region and its architecture.

This year’s event runs October 6-11, 2020. Find out more and see other events at www.aiacv.org/exparch