Addressing Inequities In Serious Illness Care For African Americans: A Matter Of Justice And A Call To Action For Faith Communities And Healthcare Systems

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School is delighted to announce the 2023 Payne lecturer and award recipient, Dr. Kimberly S. Johnson, professor of medicine in geriatrics at Duke University School of Medicine.

Established in 2022, the Richard Payne Award and Lecture in Faith, Justice, and Health Care aims to highlight and honor academic, clinical, and lay leaders who embody Dr. Payne’s spirit of caring for the whole person in their work and research.

Dr. Johnson’s lecture, titled "Addressing Inequities in Serious Illness Care for African Americans: A Matter of Justice and A Call to Action for Faith Communities and Healthcare Systems," will be followed by an award reception at 7:30 p.m. in the Divinity Cafe. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is requested Link opens in new tab.

This event is hosted by the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School, and co-sponsored by The Purpose Project at The Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School, and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine.