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Thanks so much. This is our Politic. I'm the creator and host, Farai Chidea. This week, we examine policing and incarceration using data and explore new frameworks for talking about reform. First, a COVID-19 update with a top Biden-Harris administration official.

Dr. Marcella Nunes-Smith serves as senior advisor to the White House COVID-19 response team

and chair of the administration's COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. She also has many roles

at Yale University, Associate Dean for Health Equity Research, CNH Long Professor

of Medicine and Epidemiology, Professor of Public Health and Management, and Director

and Founder of the Equity Research and Innovation Center. Dr. Nunes Smith, welcome to Our Body

Politics. Thank you so much. It's great to be here. Looking forward to conversation with you

today. You know, my sister used to work in public health. It's great to be here. Looking forward to conversation with you today.

You know, my sister used to work in public health. She's a doctor, MDMPH, and, you know,

has done a lot of different things that have really let me know that health equity has been an issue for a long time, you know, and I will say that I've also had experiences in my own life with relatives getting health care that seems to have not

been equitable based on race and class. You have such a wide-ranging approach to this.

How are you looking at health equity through the lens of COVID-19?

And after that, in general, how do you look at it? This is an issue that has come to the forefront

in this past year plus, but has been in the consciousness of, you know, so many for a long time,

particularly, you know, those who are from communities

that are minoritized and marginalized.

Because the realities for so many people, the experiences that they can reference are

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