Dismantling Structural Inequities Behind COVID-19 Aging-Related Disparities
Speaker
Jasmine L. Travers, is an assistant professor of nursing at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Her career is dedicated to designing and conducting research to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities in vulnerable older adult groups using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Her current work focuses on mitigating disparities in appropriate access and use of in-home and facility-based long-term care for older adults (i.e., home & community based settings, nursing homes, and assisted living). Currently, Dr. Travers is the principle investigator of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation four-year Career Development Award through the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program which she is examining the association of neighborhood disadvantage with nursing home outcomes using large scale nursing home data and a Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leader five-year K76 Award through the National Institute on Aging which in this mixed-method study she will develop a survey instrument aimed to identify unmet needs that are disproportionately driving avoidable nursing home placements. She also sits on the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine Committee on the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes.
Dr. Travers has published widely on the topics of aging, long-term care, health disparities, workforce diversity, vaccinations, and infections. She has presented her work at regional and national health services research, gerontological, nursing, and public health conferences.
Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, Dr. Travers completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale University and a T32 funded postdoctoral fellowship at the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Dr. Travers received her PhD at Columbia University School of Nursing, MHS at Yale University, MSN in Adult-Gerontological Health at Stony Brook University, and BSN at Adelphi University.
Disclosure: Dr. Travers has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Course Description
This session will spark provocative insight into the challenges with equitable delivery of quality care for all older adult populations. The talk will end off by discussing next steps to addressing inequitable care in order to ensure that all older adults have equitable access to person-centered quality care.
Educational Objectives
- Define structural inequities
- Explain drivers of structural inequities
- Describe solutions to dismantle structural inequities
Contact
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