Name: Sigerist Circle Panel: From Communities of Care to Health Equity in Local Communities of Need: Igniting Activist Practices for Change
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Sigerist Circle Panel: From Communities of Care to Health Equity in Local Communities of Need: Igniting Activist Practices for Change

Thursday June 4, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom E

The Communities of Care project focuses on communities of care in Buffalo to think with study participants about the everyday ways that those impacted by disability, both caregivers and those receiving care, including poor, racialized, and disabled people, navigate and negotiate living, working, and accessing vital healthcare and other needs. The project uses “communities of care” to extend its understanding of care networks beyond formalized healthcare settings to include the vital care that takes place in the home, in neighborhoods, and in other settings. It also considers care as work – both in its more formal settings and in the informal spaces in which it most often occurs. The Communities of Care project explores the ways in which this work has been/is gendered and racialized and the implications that this has for the formation of caregiving/receiving relationships and worker organizing. At the center of the project is the creation of a permanent digital community archive, gallery and exhibition space, and research guide made available to community members, students, and researchers of all levels. In this roundtable conversation, the Communities of Care project will be put into dialogue with the innovative work being done through the UB Community Health Equity Research Institute, which focuses on abolishing health inequities.

1. Michael Rembis, Introduction and Co-Creating Stories
2. Steve Peraza, Care Doesn’t Provide Itself
3. Tabby Violet, Stories We Can't Tell: Reflections on Refusal and Possibility
4. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., Unnecessary Deaths, Sacrifice Zones, and Underdeveloped Neighborhoods: How to Abolish Health Inequities

Moderators

Jim Bono

Associate Professor Emeritus, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Speakers

Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.

Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, in the School of Architecture and Planning, Clinical Professor, in the Department of Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, founding director of the U.B. Center for Urban Studies, and associate director of the U.B. Community Health Equity Research Institute at the University at Buffalo., University at Buffalo

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2026 AAHM + AAHN Annual Meeting

Jim Bono

Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.

Steve Peraza

Michael Rembis

Tabby Violet

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2026 AAHM + AAHN Annual Meeting

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Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.

Steve Peraza

Michael Rembis

Tabby Violet

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