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Our health isn’t solely determined by medicine, doctors and genetics. Instead, sociological, economic and racial conditions have a greater impact on our wellbeing. What inevitably shapes these conditions is Power. "Power and Health" brings on some of today’s most innovative thinkers, economists, sociologists, epidemiologists and community members like Dr. Camara Jones, Eric Liu, and Dr. Manuel Pastor to to examine the role of power in our society and how it can be reshaped through community, belonging and inclusion in order to reshape our health.

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Two children at Camp Christmas Seals in Haverston, New York, 1943, featured in POWER & HEALTH. (Image courtesy of Gordon Parks)

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