Randi Towns
@randijtowns
Equity advocate. Millennial. Black woman that matters. Tweets are my own.
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10-02-2021 19:01:35
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Amazing panel on preventing #healthequity leaders from becoming collateral damage in fight to end institutional racism Jesse Raney Bridges Everfi Andres Gonzalez Froedtert Maria Hernandez InclusionINC @duane_reynolds Just Health #healthequitysummit
“Don’t stay in your lane” — Dr. Ashish K. Jha. To try improve public health, we must go outside of what is considered of “public health”
“All of our work has to come from #love, #empathy, and #compassion.” Reed Tuckson Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith Laurie Zephyrin MD #HealthEquity #StructuralRacism #Conversation #CommunityAction
"I was taught that there were three biological races—Mongoloid, Caucasoid, Negroid—in New Orleans in the 1990s in medical school. So if I was taught those things, that means there are a lot of providers that have a lot to unlearn." Joia Crear Perry #HealthEquity #Unlearn #Racism
We're so excited to host Dr. David A. Ansell next week! #HealthEquity #Inequality #StructuralRacism #CulturalDiversity #Awareness #Inclusion David Ansell Rush University System for Health Sheps Center @uncpopcenter.bsky.social TEDxUNC youtube.com/watch?v=wVu6c8…
Randi Towns named one of Triangle Business Journal 2021’s 40 Under 40!! Our team (UNC Health Crystal Cené, MD, MPH & The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is lucky to have a colleague as special as Randi ❤️ #HealthEquity #SDoH #40U40Awards #NC Habitat for Humanity Habitat for Humanity of Orange County, NC Chatham Habitat
“It’s really important that we name the root causes of health #inequities… Crystal Cené, MD, MPH & Wesley Burks (Advancing #Equity & Dismantling #StructuralRacism: The Fierce Urgency of Now) Huron’s What’s Right in Health Care conference. #Data #Stories #HealthEquity #RootCause
SAVE THE DATE: Health Equity Speaker Series featuring Dr. Crystal Cene & Angela Bryant on 9/24 @ 10am ET! Crystal Cené, MD, MPH Angela R. Bryant Sheps Center @uncCHER #Conversations #EducateYourself ➡️Register here: unc.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Learn more about our #HealthEquity team (Randi Towns, Crystal Cené, MD, MPH) and the work we are doing: go.unc.edu/w3KCn #TarHealTuesday #GivingTuesday #DEI #SDoH #CommunityFocus
“Place-based investing is an impactful yet underutilized strategy that can be leveraged by anchor institutions to improve community health and advance health equity,” write Crystal Cené, MD, MPH Randi Towns buff.ly/32Or3Zv
Blessed to have co-authored this piece with 1 of my favorite people, Randi Towns about health system’s role in investing in economic well-being of COMMUNITIES. Heath CARE requires caring for community. UNC Health UC San Diego Health ncmedicaljournal.com/content/83/1/13
Speaking of #healthequitywins ... In 2021, UNC School of Medicine launched the MED EXCEL program where students underrepresented in Med School have an intensive 1 year clinical, academic and professional development curriculum with conditional acceptance to the Med School upon completion