Virtual care has great potential to improve rural health and health equity. Virtual care can either serve to stretch the capabilities of understaffed rural clinics – for example, by pre-screening or ...

In this MM+M Fast Break, MM+M’s Heerea Rikhraj sits down with Dr. Julius Wilder to chat about “Steps Ahead”, a new documentary focused on the issue of health equity and health disparities folks in ...

Health equity is often misunderstood as a public health issue or a collection of programs layered onto broken systems. In reality, it is a leadership issue. It reflects whose voices are centered, how ...

On April 1, 2019, the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions of the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, held a public workshop, A Health Equity ...

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 ...

The state’s Public Health Committee plans to reintroduce legislation in the upcoming session next month that would restrict ...

In a wide-ranging conversation covering health determinants, trust in the COVID-19 vaccine, and solutions to health inequity, panelists Dr. Yolandra Toya ’88, Dr. Chris Pernell ’97, and Dr. Owen ...

Health inequities and racial injustice persist in American life and in the healthcare industry, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has signaled its intention to address these issues with a ...

Mississippi’s Health Department fired employees working on preventive health and health equity issues, people familiar with the personnel decision told Mississippi Today. An employee who was ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Black men face some of the highest rates of chronic disease, as well as some of the lowest access to care. The annual Black Men’s Health Equity Conference was held on Saturday ...