Nearly a third of the nurses who have died of coronavirus in the US are Filipino, according to National Nurses United, even though Filipino nurses make up just 4.5% of the nursing workforce nationwide. About 25% of Filipinos in the NYC metropolitan area work in healthcare. In the Philippines, frontline healthcare workers have been targeted for harassment and received inadequate levels of support from the government.
Join Emerson Ea, Assistant Dean at NYU’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing, Kym Villamer, Clinical Nurse Manager at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Queens, and Gideon Lasco of the University of the Philippines-Diliman to discuss the challenges facing Filipino/Filipinx frontline healthcare workers in the U.S. and in the Philippines in their struggle for a response to the pandemic that protects their livelihoods and well-being.
This event was broadcast live on Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 7:00-8:15 pm (EDT) | Wednesday, May 5, 7:00-8:15am (PHT).
Speaker Bios (by order of appearance):
Carlyn Dinshaw is Dean for the Humanities, Silver Professor and professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English at New York University.
John Gershman is a Clinical professor of Public Service at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU and a member of the Steering Committee of Sulo: Philippine Studies at NYU.
Emerson Ea is the assistant dean and a clinical associate professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. His scholarship includes nursing education and innovation, immigrant health and well-being, and cardiovascular health. He is the Education Chair of the Philippine Nurses Association of America. He earned a PhD in nursing from Duquesne University, Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Case Western Reserve University, MS in adult health from Long Island University, and BSN from the University of St. La Salle, Philippines.
Quimberly “Kym” Villamer is a Clinical Nurse Manager at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She is a Certified Medical-Surgical RN. She received her BSN from the Universidad de Santa Isabel and is currently a dual-degree Masters Student at CUNY in Nursing Administration and Urban Policy and Leadership.
Maria Paz Carlos is a Senior Public Health Advisor at the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services. She has a Doctor of Vet Medicine from the University of the Philippines as well as an MBA from Georgetown University and a PhD from the UC Davis School of Medicine.
Gideon Lasco is a physician, medical anthropologist, and writer. He is senior lecturer at the University of the Philippines Diliman’s Department of Anthropology and research fellow at the Ateneo de Manila University’s Development Studies Program. Among other issues, he has recently published on medical populism and responses to the pandemic in the Philippines, Brazil, and the United States. He obtained his MD and master’s degree from the UP College of Medicine, and his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam.