CDPH Hosting Webinar on Exploring California’s 2020 Death Data

The California Department of Public Health will be hosting a webinar on Thursday, August 19, from 11:00 am until 12:00 pm for local health department staff presenting a state-level analysis of excess mortality for California in 2020 and will include an assessment of impacts by race/ethnicity and age, as well as notable increases in deaths due to conditions other than COVID-19 (such as drug overdose, homicide, Alzheimer’s and ischemic heart disease). CDPH Director Dr. Tomás Aragón and Dr. Rohan Radhakrishna, Deputy Director, CDPH Office of Health Equity, will both also appear for a panel discussion.

Information on registering for this webinar can be found here.