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About this episode

Byllye Y. Avery gave a very moving and motivating speech at the conference, The Health Care Emergency in Our Communities: Inequities and the Insurance Crisis. Speakers included Byllye Avery and Drs. Gerald Thomson, Linnea Capps & Gerald Deas. Co-chaired by Dr. Ayodele Green and Ayana Jordan. This event was in Manhattan at Harlem Hospital, sponsored by PNHP NY Metro Chapter and SNMA Region IX.BByllye Y. Avery is founder of The Avery Institute for Social Change (www.averyinstitute.org) and the Black Women's Health Imperative, the new name of the National Women's Health Project. Avery has served on the Charter Advisory Committee for the Office of Research on Women's Health of the Natoinal Institutes of Health. In addition, she has served two years as a visiting fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.

• Release Date

  Oct 3, 2006

• Runtime

  12:42