Health equity—the concept that every person has a fair and just opportunity to attain their maximum level of health—has never rung more true in today's highly driven healthcare world. Yet despite ...
Early this year, The Black Directors Health Equity Agenda, BDHEA, hosted a national summit on advancing healthcare for Black Americans. Conversations centered around community health navigation, the ...
Beyer is an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. As a pediatrician and a scientist-in-training, I conduct research on a critical question ...
Low or limited health literacy is a predictor of poorer health outcomes and health disparities. Patient populations in the United States who are at higher risk of low/limited health literacy are ...
Throughout 2025, the federal government and several state healthcare systems advanced new restrictions on diversity, equity, ...
Many hospitals and health systems have integrated diversity, equity and inclusion into their workforce and patient care strategies. But now DEI is under scrutiny for both public and private ...
Aging is inevitable. It’s also very expensive. At some point in our lives, seven out of 10 of us will need long-term care. And costs for it are high, rising faster than inflation overall. The annual ...