Join us for our May ALS Learning Series with Dr. Chelsea R. Carter, an Assistant Professor of Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale University; she will speak on how scientific knowledge production, clinical care, and systemic marginalization impact historically underrepresented communities affected by diseases like ALS.

The Les Turner ALS Foundation is proud to offer this webinar at no cost to the ALS community. Thank you to the Gilbert & Jacqueline Fern Foundation, Biogen, & Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America for sponsoring this webinar. 

About the Speaker: Chelsea R. Carter, Phd, MPH  

 Chelsey R. Carter, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale University, with a secondary affiliation in the Department of Anthropology. Her research program examines how scientific knowledge production, clinical care, and systemic marginalization impact historically underrepresented communities affected by rare and neurodegenerative diseases like ALS. Dr. Carter is also undertaking a book project tentatively titled, Finding the Forgotten: Race, Bias, and Care in the World of ALS, which includes an ethnographic study of the diverse experiences of living with ALS, and draws on over 15 years of experience with Black communities affected by ALS. She is Founder & Director of The LEITH (Lived Experiences Igniting Transformations in Health) Lab.