Health Equity
We explore the root causes of health disparities that drive poorer health outcomes, and health policy to advance health equity for all.
Building thriving communities and advancing health equity requires improving the interrelated social and economic conditions at the root causes of health outcomes. This includes ensuring that health communication, access, and delivery reflect the needs, experiences, and unique characteristics of historically excluded people.
Health Equity
Highlights
Our Social Contract and the Coronavirus Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has created a moment of choice. America has always struggled to balance its first principle to the conservation of high-quality lives against the demands of economic interest. In his first draft of the Declaration...Read Essay
A Diseased Nation: COVID-19 as a Deadly Symptom of Systemic Racism in the US
The COVID-19 pandemic is amplifying the entanglement of systemic racism and health in our country. As the number of US cases continues to rise, pockets of data are revealing that African American communities are being disproportionately...Read Essay
Thought Leadership
There is a critical need for systemic and structural change to achieve health equity—an outcome that is ethical, humane, and responsible. The time to act is now.
It is time to collaborate with those denied their fundamental right to good health outcomes and elevate their stories into data driven evidence-based interventions. It is time to turn their pain into unwavering action.