Lunch and Learn \;returns with special guest Layal Liverpool\, author of "Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Sick ." Sharing her journey to show how racism\, woven into our societies as we ll as into medicine and science\, is harmful to our health\, Dr. Liverpool \, a virologist\, immunologist and science journalist\, reveals the fatal stereotypes that keep people of color undiagnosed\, untreated and unsafe\, and tells us what we can do about it.
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Layal Liverpool is a science journalist and author bas ed in Berlin\, Germany. Her upcoming book \;Systemic\, about the healt h harms of racism\, will be published in June 2024.
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Layal's journalism has spanned diverse science topics\, including technology\, physics\, the environment and heal th\, with a particular focus on inequalities in science\, health and medic ine. Her writing has appeared in \;Nature\, \;New Scientist\, \;WIRED\, the \;Guardian\, and elsewhere\, and she has worked on staff as a reporter for both \;Nature \;and \;New Scientist.
\n< p>Before moving into journalism\, Layal worked as a biomedical researcher at University College London and the University of Oxford in the UK. She h as a PhD in virology and immunology from the University of Oxford.\n