May 29, 2021
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VIDEO: Nonclinical diabetes risk factors key to post-pandemic care
In this video exclusive, Jonathan D. Leffert, MD, talks with Sherita H. Golden, MD, MHS, about insights into diabetes she gained along her path to becoming vice president and chief diversity officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Golden describes the intersection of COVID-19 risk factors with those for diabetes and obesity, including biases in health systems, a lack of diversity among the biomedical workforce, unequal social conditions and structural racism.