Women's Health in Today's World: Conversation with Dr. Kim Rhoads

Welcome to Women's Health in Today's World: Conversation with Dr. Kim Rhoads!

In a time where access to healthcare, reproductive care, and research on women's health is being cut, as women, how can we stay aware of our rights, our access, and support others who are being impacted deeply?

Join the YWCA Berkeley/Oakland, a 136 year old racial and gender justice organization, and Dr. Kim Rhoads, for this opportunity join an insightful discussion as a community during this pivotal time.

We will be serving wine, appetizers, and refreshments.

This event is a great opportunity to learn, ask questions, and connect with women of the Bay Area who are looking to take part in a vital conversation. Don't miss out!

Tickets are sliding scale. All ticket levels offer the same admission, please choose the level you are most comfortable with.

___________________________________________________________________________________

About Dr. Kim Rhoads:

Dr. Rhoads MD, MS, MPH is an Associate Director of Community Outreach and engagement at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center. She also serves as a professor of colorectal surgery in the VCU School of Medicine. Rhoads most recently served as the associate director for community outreach and engagement at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCSF. A board-certified colon and rectal surgeon, she founded the pelvic floor clinic at Stanford, becoming a leading voice in advancing women’s health and addressing conditions long under-recognized in medical care.

Her research explores how unequal access to evidence-based cancer treatment contributes to racial and ethnic survival disparities. Her work has shaped institutional strategies to close these gaps through equitable care delivery.

Dr. Rhoads is also the founding Director of Umoja Health Bay Area, a community coalition born in 2020 to rapidly mobilize to address the COVID-19 disparities facing communities of color. Its focus has been on building community coalitions with the capacity to address the uderlying cause of health inequities by dismantling systemic racism and reimagining healthcare delivery.

Rhoads holds leadership roles intenationally as a co-investigator leading the patient advocate efforts for the NCI/Cancer Research UK Cancer Grand Challenge team PROMINENT; nationally as an MPI for NIMHD's Health Excellence Action Network (HEAN); and locally as a community organizer for the Center for Third World Organizing in Oakland.

She earned her MD from UCSF, an MS from UC Berkeley, and an MPH from Harvard, where she was a California Endowment Scholar in Minority Health Policy.

___________________________________________________________________________________

Host or Publisher YWCA Berkeley/Oakland