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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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Faith leaders, activists and family members hold a public memorial in front of the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco to honor 17 people who died of COVID-19 while in prison or ICE detention. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Image

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The gas-powered Valley Generating Station is seen in the San Fernando Valley at sunset. | David McNew/Getty Images

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Farm worker picking strawberries from low lying strawberry plants in Watsonville, California | David Gomez/Getty Images

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A homeless man sitting on a stoop | Ben Hershey / Unsplash

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People wait in line to receive food at a Food Bank distribution for those in need as the coronavirus pandemic continues on April 9, 2020 in Van Nuys, California. | Mario Tama/Getty Images

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Protestors hug at the Brown Unity March, which was organized to unite the Black, Latino and Indigenous communities in demanding justice for victims of police brutality in Los Angeles. | ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images

Protestors hug at the Brown Unity March, which was organized to unite the Black, Latino and Indigenous communities in demanding justice for victims of police brutality in Los Angeles. | ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images

Power & Health

Shifting the Power Paradigm: Centering Community to Build a Healthy, Equitable, and Just Future

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

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

Power & Health

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Police siren in the foreground of a line of law enforcement officers.

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Illustration representing the criminalization of Black and Latinx people for substance abuse.

Power & Health

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A group of civil rights demonstrators staging a sit-in at the U.S. Capitol on March 15, 1965 featured in POWER & HEALTH. | Courtesy of Warren K. Leffler

A group of civil rights demonstrators staging a sit-in at the U.S. Capitol on March 15, 1965 featured in POWER & HEALTH. | Courtesy of Warren K. Leffler

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

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

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Protestors hug at the Brown Unity March, which was organized to unite the Black, Latino and Indigenous communities in demanding justice for victims of police brutality in Los Angeles. | ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images

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A group of civil rights demonstrators staging a sit-in at the U.S. Capitol on March 15, 1965 featured in POWER & HEALTH. | Courtesy of Warren K. Leffler

A group of civil rights demonstrators staging a sit-in at the U.S. Capitol on March 15, 1965 featured in POWER & HEALTH. | Courtesy of Warren K. Leffler

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Faith leaders, activists and family members hold a public memorial in front of the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco to honor 17 people who died of COVID-19 while in prison or ICE detention. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Image

Faith leaders, activists and family members hold a public memorial in front of the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco to honor 17 people who died of COVID-19 while in prison or ICE detention. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Image

Power & Health

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Farm worker picking strawberries from low lying strawberry plants in Watsonville, California | David Gomez/Getty Images

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Seneca white corn grown at the Cultural Conservancy. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode “Cultivating Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy."

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A group at the Cultural Conservancy removes dried grain corn from the cob to preserve the seeds in their seed library. | Still from the "Cultivating Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy" episode of "Tending Nature."

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Nurse Michael Lowman gets the first dose of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from nurse practitioner Christie Aiello at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA, on Dec. 16, 2020. | Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty

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A healthcare worker vaccinates an elderly person. | iStock via Getty Images

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