Don't miss this week's sneak preview showing and dialogue of Hour Three of the PBS documentary Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick. This event is this Thursday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at the downtown Ann Arbor District Library, 4th Floor Meeting Room. No tickets needed!

Hour Three includes two segments: "Bad Sugar" about Type 2 diabetes amongst Pima and Tohono O’odham Indians, and "Place Matters" about segregation in US cities and neighborhood health effects.  Washtenaw County Medical Director, Dr. Diana Torres-Burgos will lead a discussion immediately after.

The Washtenaw County Public Health Department is pleased to be one of 100 local health departments nationwide that is screening previews and hosting discussions around the PBS documentary, “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making us Sick?” The four-hour series, to be broadcast nationally beginning in late March, examines our nation’s alarming socio-economic and racial disparities in health and searches for their causes. 

As you’re certainly aware, Washtenaw County is no stranger to a variety of health inequities (in infant mortality, mental health, and oral health, for example), which is why we are partnering with the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Office of Public Health Practice to generate community engagement and dialogue around this important topic.

If you have questions please call the Public Health Department's Administrative Assistant Lucinda Reames at 734-544-3059.