Mobilizing Partners: Advancing Health Equity and Addressing Disparities (AHEAD) in Arizona

Learning objectives:

• IdentifyAzCRH-led initiatives to support rural health care and public health partners in addressing COVID-19 driven inequities.
• Describe lessons learned from two years of COVID response.
• UnderstandtheimportanceofadoptingahealthequitylenstoinformcontinuedCOVID-19 response and recovery.

Dr. Mona Arora is a Tucson native and an Assistant Research Professor at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. She currently serves on the UArizona pandemic response team and is a co-chair of the campus COVID-19 Vaccine Task force. Dr. Arora has recently taken on the role of co-lead on a CDC-ADHS COVID-19 Health Disparities Initiative aimed at advancing health equity & address social determinants of health related to COVID-19 health disparities among higher risk and underserved populations. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Emergency Preparedness, Climate Change, and One Health at the College of Public Health.