Spotlight: Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH

Summary: Dr. Shiriki Kumanyika served as a Community Preventive Services Task Force member from 2013-2021. When this was recorded in 2018, she was a research professor in the Department of Community Health & Prevention at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. In this audio clip she discusses the value of the CPSTF and how The Community Guide can be used to address health disparities and promote health equity.

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Links and resources from the audio clip:

• Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health
• African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network
• Council on Black Health

Recorded June, 2018