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Lunch and Learn: Layal Liverpool on "Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Sick"

Co-presented with the Prince George's County Office of Human Rights

This summer, grab your favorite lunch at noon and tune in to virtual conversations with the Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights and the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System on topics from how racism is making us sick to human trafficking awareness to increasing equity and opportunity in the sciences. Let’s learn together!

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 well 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.

Layal Liverpool is a science journalist and author based in Berlin, Germany. Her upcoming book Systemic, about the health harms of racism, will be published in June 2024.

Layal's journalism has spanned diverse science topics, including technology, physics, the environment and health, with a particular focus on inequalities in science, health and medicine. 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.

Before moving into journalism, Layal worked as a biomedical researcher at University College London and the University of Oxford in the UK. She has a PhD in virology and immunology from the University of Oxford.