Centering Equity and Community in the Recovery of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Giselle Corbie-Smith; Mary K Wolfe; Stephanie M Hoover; Gaurav Dave

doi:10.18043/ncm.82.1.62

Centering Equity and Community in the Recovery of the COVID-19 Pandemic

N C Med J. 2021 Jan-Feb;82(1):62-67. doi: 10.18043/ncm.82.1.62.

Authors

Giselle Corbie-Smith¹, Mary K Wolfe², Stephanie M Hoover³, Gaurav Dave⁴

Affiliations

¹ Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine; professor, Internal Medicine; director, Center for Health Equity Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. [email protected].
² research scientist, Center for Health Equity Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
³ assistant director of research, Center for Health Equity Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
⁴ associate professor, Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology; associate director, Center for Health Equity Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

PMID: 33397760
DOI: 10.18043/ncm.82.1.62

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed socioeconomic, geographic, and medical vulnerabilities in our country. In North Carolina, inequalities resulting from centuries of structural racism exacerbate disparate impacts of infection and death. We propose three opportunities that leaders in our state can embrace to move toward equity as we weather, and emerge from, this pandemic.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
North Carolina / epidemiology
Pandemics / prevention & control
Racism*
SARS-CoV-2