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The Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine today launched its Health Equity Tracker, a data platform that highlights the disparate impacts of COVID-19 on marginalized communities.
Built with support from Gilead Sciences, Google.org, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the CDC Foundation, the tracker is a data visualization tool that displays the scale of COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations across race and ethnicity, sex and age, from a whole-country view down to the county level.
What’s more, the Health Equity Tracker allows users to view different conditions and determinants that have led to unequal COVID-19 outcomes, including COPD, diabetes, poverty and uninsured rates. It can also be used to compare outcomes in different locations.
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A new health equity initiative from Fitbit is aiming to put research tools into the hands of traditionally underrepresented early career researchers to empower investigations into health disparities.
Announced this week, the Health Equity Research Initiative will award up to $500,000 in Fitbit products and services to researchers looking specifically at health inequalities in underserved populations.
Award winners will also get support from Fitabase, a research data management platform and longtime Fitbit partner. The platform bridges the gap between consumer wearables and clinical research by extracting device data and uploading it to the Fitabase portal for interpretation.