Rebuilding a Global Approach to Health from Physicians for Human Rights
9am on Thursday, July 16
The devastating spread of COVID-19 has ravaged health care systems around the globe, laying bare the gaping holes in a broken system. When we eventually emerge from this crisis that has changed the world as we know it, our health care systems must change with it. This moment presents an opportunity to reconstruct our global approach to health care in order to create systems that respect health as a human right. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) will host a discussion on these challenges and the collaboration needed to develop solutions to improve health care. The conversation will cover the importance of approaching solutions through an intersectional analysis of COVID-19’s impact.
Self-Care: Intentionally Improving Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic from Relias
Noon-1pm on Thursday, July 16
Often discussed and infrequently practiced, self-care is critically important during the profound and protracted COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the understandable and normal waves of anxiety, depression, and stress that many feel during this uncertain time, the COVID-19 pandemic renders us more vulnerable to burnout, compassion fatigue, or vicarious trauma. This webinar will discuss the particular reasons why COVID-19 both challenges our resilience and offers an unprecedented opportunity to incorporate self-care into our lives.
How Would a Child Allowance Impact Child Poverty in America?
8am on Tuesday, July 21
Join the Century Foundation’s Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering Government Initiative and the Columbia University Center on Poverty and Social Policy as leading national experts discuss a forthcoming report on how child poverty could be reduced if the United States adopted a child allowance modeled on Canada’s successful Child Benefit. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, close to one in three children in the United States lived in or near poverty. Federal relief such as the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act has the potential to stop the worst of the projected poverty increases, but has failed to provide enough aid for children and families. With key income support provisions of the CARES Act set to expire at the end of July, there is an increased urgency surrounding calls to include a cash support for children delivered on a regular, ongoing basis in the next round of stimulus packages.
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