Stopping Systemic Racism, Babies Born to Women with Disabilities – Episode 30

Joseph L. Wright, MD, MPH, FAAP, is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Capital Region Health within the University of Maryland Medical System. He previously served as Chair of Pediatrics at the Howard University College of Medicine, and Senior VP for Community Affairs within the Children's National Health System. He maintains adjunct appointments as professor of pediatrics and health services administration, respectively, at the University of Maryland Schools of Medicine and Public Health.

Dr. Wright’s scholarly interests include injury prevention, EMS for children, and the needs of underserved communities. He has been recognized by the American Academy of Pediatrics for his leadership and advocacy work with the 2011 Fellows Achievement Award and the 2013 Jim Seidel Distinguished Service Award, both given for exceptional contributions, respectively, to the disciplines of injury prevention and emergency medicine. Dr. Wright is immediate past chair of the AAP Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the AAP Task Force on Addressing Bias and Discrimination. He is currently an at-large member of the AAP Board of Directors and sits on the Board Equity Committee.

Hilary Brown, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and is an Adjunct Scientist at Women’s College Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. Dr. Brown holds a Canada Research Chair in Disability & Reproductive Health and New Investigator Awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the American Public Health Association Disability Section. Her research program, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the National Institutes of Health, uses epidemiologic methods to examine maternal and child health across the life course. She has a particular interest in populations with disabilities and chronic illness, social determinants of health, and health equity.