Mical Raz, MD, PhD, Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professor in Public Policy and Health, Department of History, University of Rochester, and Clinical Medicine, Hospitalist Division, University of Rochester Medical Center

Why are racially unequal surveillance, policing, and child removal so central to the American child welfare system?  Distinguished historian and physician Mical Raz explores the origins and development of the system and offers “history lessons” on how to imagine better ways to support families.  For more on Dr. Raz’s work, see her book Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way (UNC Press, 2020)

HYBRID EVENT | Thursday, March 10, 4 – 5:30pm, 509 O’Brian Hall (Baldy Center conference room) and by Zoom

Zoom link will be sent to those indicating online attendance. For more information contact David Herzberg at herzberg@buffalo.edu.

Co-sponsored by the UB Departments of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, and Sociology; the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy; the Center for Medical Humanities at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; the UB Community Health Equity Research Institute; the UB Gender Studies Institute; and the UB School of Social Work