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Today With Dr. Kaye: Doctors weigh in on medical mistrust, racism

Dr. Aysha Khoury

(WEAA) — Many African Americans are skeptical of the COVID-19 vaccine due to the history of medical abuse and mistreatment within Black communities. 

 

 

Dr. Tanjala S. Purnell

  Dr. Tanjala Purcell, an epidemiologist and an Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health joins Dr. Kaye to answer tough questions about medical mistrust. 

 

Dr. Aysha Khoury, a physician educator committed to health equity and the elimination of health disparities, joins Dr. Kaye to address medical racism. 

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Today With Dr. Kaye: 2-16-2021- Hour 2

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Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead is an associate professor of Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland and the award-winning author of Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis; a featured Public Commentator for WYPR and Op-Ed columnist for the Baltimore Sun; a K-12 master teacher in African American History; an award-winning curriculum writer and lesson plan developer; an award-winning former Baltimore City middle school teacher; and, a three-time New York Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker.
Baltimore native, Micarie Kemp has always been passionate about working in the media.