Daniel Kass is the senior vice-president (Environmental, Climate, and Urban Health) at Vital Strategies, where he leads a team working on using the tools of public health to address environmental threats and ensure healthy and sustainable outcomes for people living in an increasingly urbanised world. Kass is an expert on environmental health and environmental disease prevention, with 35 years of experience in enforcement, education, policy, and research programmes at Hunter College, as the head of environmental health for the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in New York City, and at Vital Strategies. Dan completed doctoral studies (ABD) in Public Administration at NYU and held a Master of Science in Public Health degree from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science degree from Brown University.
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A UCLA Fielding School of Public Health-led team has found that Hispanic, Black, and Native Americans have carried the burden of the pandemic, both in overall mortality and specifically in years of potential life lost, in an analysis of 45 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (D.C.).
“COVID-19 certainly didn’t cause these racial/ethnic disparities in health outcomes, but it did highlight and bring unprecedented national attention to long-standing societal and health inequalities that many communities of color in the U.S. face,” said
Dr. Ron Brookmeyer, dean of the Fielding School and distinguished professor of biostatistics. “It is imperative that we rise to the challenge of addressing the health needs of communities of color, both during the U.S. COVID-19 epidemic and long after its conclusion.”
Analysis: Hispanic, Black, and Native Americans have carried the burden of COVID-19 pandemic
A UCLA Fielding School of Public Health-led team has found that Hispanic, Black, and Native Americans have carried the burden of the pandemic, both in overall mortality and specifically in years of potential life lost, in an analysis of 45 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (D.C.). COVID-19 certainly didn t cause these racial/ethnic disparities in health outcomes, but it did highlight and bring unprecedented national attention to long-standing societal and health inequalities that many communities of color in the U.S. face, said Dr. Ron Brookmeyer, dean of the Fielding School and distinguished professor of biostatistics. It is imperative that we rise to the challenge of addressing the health needs of communities of color, both during the U.S. COVID-19 epidemic and long after its conclusion.