Fighting for Health Equity: Interview with inspiring doctor and COVID vaccine expert Jayne Morgan, MD

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In this episode we chat with Dr. Jayne Morgan who is the Director of the Covid Task Force at the Piedmont Healthcare Corporation in Atlanta, GA, a cardiologist, and a Covid vaccine expert. Dr. Morgan manages communications in a public health crisis for the entire state of Georgia – and a politically-charged one at that! We discuss Dr. Morgan’s efforts to educate the public about the Covid vaccine as an outstanding example of health equity in today’s age.
What is health equity?
Health equity is defined as giving everyone the same chance to be healthy, regardless of race, social status, gender, or any other circumstances within that person’s state of being.
Here's where inspirational physicians and Covid vaccine experts like Dr. Morgan play a key role in health equity. With modern technology and artificial intelligence, there are large parts of medicine that are moving directly to the consumer, and are given to the consumer’s hands. You can monitor your own heart rate, for example, using a wearable device. You can participate in clinical trials about diseases that affect people like yourself. For example, Dr. Morgan’s passion is increasing minority recruitment into clinical trials.
There is a huge opportunity for members of the community – whether they be physicians, medical experts, community leaders, and community members themselves – to exert their influence over others and encourage them to participate in these health equity initiatives for the betterment of not just their own health but that of others.
She started filming herself discussing the Covid vaccine from the stairs of her house, and had no idea the legs that it would take on – at first, she thought it was just going to be a few episodes. It turned into an entire series. Her goal was to combat the misinformation and the intentional disinformation about the Covid campaigns. In many of her videos she addresses questions posed on social media about the Covid vaccine.
Her biggest challenge was in the fourth surge (the Delta variant) when disinformation was driving a lot of chaos in the minds of the public. She took on this nonsense hocus pocus (mostly from social media) in her Stairwell Chronicles. She took it head on and encouraged other doctors and Covid experts to address it as well.
The reason Dr. Morgan’s efforts are a great example of health equity in action is because of how they were done. Her educational snippets about the vaccine are filmed from the stairs of her home, and her communication style is clear, relatable, and to the point. She distributed them over social media and made it easy for people to access them. Not the typical clinical-sounding video of a doctor in a lab coat preaching about medical tips.
Those looking to improve health equity in their community could take a page from Dr. Morgan’s book. Knowledge is empowering and it’s even more easily received if you can talk to people on their level and focus on making complicated subjects comfortable and understandable.
We hope that you’ll listen to the podcast with inspiring doctor and Covid expert Dr. Jayne Morgan.
Music is Positive Fuse by French Fuse
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