The final day of the 2023 Accelerating Health Equity Conference featured Dr. Brian Smedley, equity scholar at the Urban Institute, as the closing plenary speaker.
If the government, corporations and philanthropic organizations have spent so much on health equity, why is so much disparity still present? Ernst & Young and its chief medical officer, Dr. Yele Aluko, explain.
UC Santa Barbara’s Health Professions Association’s Inclusivity & Outreach Committee hosted a webinar to highlight implicit, unconscious and structural bias in healthcare, on Jan. 21.
Generally, behavioral health and substance use disorder are behind other specialties in collecting health equity data to lower outcome disparities. Data standardization, reporting requirements, and interoperability are critical to quickly addressing gaps.