AMA's Moving Medicine series features physician voices and achievements. Learn more in this discussion about gun violence and why we need to approach it as a public health issue.
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Unger: Hello, this is the American Medical Association s COVID-19 Update. Today, I m excited to talk to Dr. Megan Ranney, a practicing emergency physician, researcher and national advocate for innovative approaches to public health. She is the director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, co-founder of Get Us PPE, an organization that gets PPE to those who need it, and is calling in from East Greenwich, Rhode Island. I m Todd Unger, AMA s chief experience officer in Chicago. Dr. Ranney, thank you so much for joining us today. I remember a year ago when you co-founded Get Us PPE, and you ve been working on a lot of stuff since then, including dispelling myths about vaccination. And then we re going to turn attention to talk about gun violence as well. But just think back a year ago and what we were going through in this pandemic. How are you now thinking about the impact that you had through Get Us PPE and looking at where we are today?
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Unger: Hello, this is the American Medical Association s COVID-19 Update. Today, we re talking about how to combat anti-Asian racism both during the pandemic and beyond, and physicians important role in that effort. I m joined today by Dr. Audiey Kao, the AMA s vice president of ethics in Los Angeles; Dr. Anna Yap, an emergency medicine resident at the UCLA-Olive View in Los Angeles; and Hannah Seoh, the AMA s director of health equity performance and operations in Chicago. I m Todd Unger, AMA s chief experience officer in Chicago. Anti-Asian racism has become much more visible recently with the very public violence that we ve seen against Asian Americans. Has this shine the light on an existing problem or does this reflect a new wave of anti-Asian sentiment in our country? Dr. Kao, will you start?
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