Urban Health Webinar Series
The Urban Health Webinar Series is a free set of virtual conversations leading up to the Urban Health Summit and Expo. Each session brings trusted community voices together for honest, practical talk about health and wellbeing.
Grandma’s Medicine Cabinet
October 26, 2026 | 6 PM CT
Zoom
Ginger ale, vapor rub, and the home remedies passed down through generations. We're digging into the homeopathic traditions many of us grew up with and using them as the entry point into a real conversation about maternal and women's health in the Black community.
The Barbershop Talk
November 9, 2026 | 6 PM CT
Zoom
The conversations Black men actually have—in barbershops, on the sidelines, between fathers and sons—become the entry point into cancer prevention, screening, and men's health engagement.
Surviving the Season
December 7, 2026 | 6 PM CT
Zoom
The holidays bring grief and caregiving to the surface for many of us. A candid conversation on death, dying, and caring for our elders and each other within the Black community, and the support that exists when we need it most.
The Road to a Healthier Tomorrow
January 6, 2026 | 6 PM CT
Zoom
Catch up on the season’s biggest moments and get a first look at what’s ahead at the Summit and Expo.
Featured Panelists
Dr. Simel Jenkins-Bey
The Barbershop Talk, PanelistDr. Simel Jenkins-Bey holds a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, with an Integrative Medical Specialty in Pain and Psychosocial Phenomena, from AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine in Austin, where he later taught diagnostic reasoning to graduate students. He has spent more than two decades working in East Asian medicine and ethnobotany, including nearly twenty years of clinical work in Austin, and has written on ethnobotany.
He has roots in Gullah-Geechee traditions, and his work has long focused on how traditional remedies live in families and communities and how people can use them wisely and with confidence. He has presented on health disparities at Dell Medical School and is a lifetime member of the All African Healing Arts Society.
He is the author of From the Field: Tales of Medicine and Spirit and several books on classical East Asian medicine. He lives in Austin, Texas.