In the first of two new blogs in the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity’s monthly series highlighting Black women health care leaders, Dana Weston Graves, president of Sentara Princess Anne Hospital, discusses the importance of advocacy and being the person she needed in her life when she was younger to support others like her. The second blog, by Jandel Allen-Davis, MD, president and CEO of Craig Hospital, discusses why she is a “warrior” when helping support historically marginalized communities.

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