In the November 19, 2020 edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, leaders in public health and academia discuss the power of data in understanding health inequities and the systemic issues that cause them to persist. Topics will include COVID-19, the social and political context surrounding data and data analysis, as well as the challenges of quantifying health inequities and the structural and social determinants of health. Panel: • Maureen Benjamins, PhD, senior research fellow at the Sinai Urban Health Institute • Nancy Krieger, PhD, professor of social epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Science at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health • Alyasah Ali Sewell, PhD, associate professor of sociology at Emory University and founder and director of The Race and Policing Project Moderator: Fernando De Maio, PhD, director, research and data use, AMA Center for Health Equity ► Earn CME credit for watching this episode of Prioritizing Equity, the AMA series amplifying voices in the health equity space: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/ama-center-health-equity/video-player/18634274 0:00 Introduction 1:31 Panel Introduction 2:01 Nancy Krieger, PhD (Introduction) 2:27 Alyasah Ali Sewell, PhD (Introduction) 2:40 Maureen Benjamins, PhD (Introduction) 2:53 Data, health justice, COVID-19, and the Spirit of 1848 Caucus 13:25 Health equity and "painting stories with numbers" 16:55 Documenting and addressing health disparities in Chicago 21:45 The Index for the Concentration of Extremes (ICE) and COVID-19 29:19 Is ICE also a way of incorporating history and context into cross sectional studies? 32:01 Unequal Cities: Structural Racism and the Death Gap in America's 30 Largest Cities 36:01 Health equity research - what is needed in the next 10 years? ► The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct #HealthEquity