In Indianapolis, wealth determines health. If you live in a low-income neighborhood in our city, there’s a good chance you’ll die earlier – 15 years earlier, in fact in some neighborhoods. We can do better.
Join WFYI, Side Effects Public Media, and the Indianapolis Public Library on October 26 from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at the Central Library, 40 E. Saint Clair Street, Indianapolis, IN 46204, for a conversation with community leaders and public health experts about how we can make Indianapolis a fairer, healthier place for everyone to live. A light breakfast will be served at 7:30. The discussion, moderated by Carmel Wroth, Managing Editor of WFYI’s health journalism initiative, Side Effects Public Media, will start at 8:00 a.m.
Panelists include:
Christie Gillespie – Vice President of Community Impact, United Way of Central Indiana
Tamara Leech, Associate Professor, IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI
Ron Gifford, CEO, Jump in for Healthy Kids (childhood obesity, food, etc)
Virginia Caine, Director of Marion County Health Department
Alfie Ballew, Chief Deputy Coroner, Marion County Coroner’s Office
The Health Inequality Project data release earlier this year cited health disparities by area, ranking Indianapolis near the bottom of the top 100 most populous metro areas for the life expectancy of its poorest citizens. A report on a similar topic was published in Indianapolis in July 2015, World’s Apart: Gaps in Life Expectancy in the Indianapolis Metro Area. The Indianapolis report was produced by the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in partnership with The Polis Center at IUPUI for the SAVI Community Information System. Report authors included: Tess D. Weathers, Tamara G.J. Leech, Lisa K. Staten, Elizabeth Alice Adams, Jay T. Colbert, and Karen Frederickson Comer. Health gaps in our communities are an ongoing, important issue that cannot be covered up; we’ve got to find solutions!
Please RSVP to Paige Bova at pbova@wfyi.org or call 317-614-0502.
Event made possible with support from BioCrossroads.
