Reducing Healthcare Disparities

Innovative community-centered partnerships and creative investment strategies can mitigate health disparities that adversely affect excluded or marginalized groups. And many health systems are using these approaches to achieve powerful results, notes a recent NEJM Catalyst analysis.
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…
Health delivery organizations are invited to apply through May 17 for the 2024 Foster G. McGaw Prize, which honors organizations that demonstrate a strategic approach to community health and health equity, improve access to care for historically marginalized communities and address societal factors…
In a new blog post from the AHA's Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, Janice E. Nevin, M.D., president and CEO of ChristianaCare and a member of the AHA Board of Trustees, discusses Delaware hospitals’ commitment to take the Health Equity Transformation Assessment and why she believes health…
Kate Blackburn, director of practice and prevention at Nemours Children’s Health, describes a new tool that can help hospitals and health systems identify the most impactful partnerships to drive progress and advance health.
AHA's Institute for Diversity and Health Equity on March 6 held its latest Health Equity Innovation Summit for AHA’s Region 7 (with members from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana). The event brought together C-suite hospital leaders, community members and patient advocates to explore regional…
For Women’s History Month, we turn the spotlight to a female-led venture capital firm that is out to change women’s lives for the better.
For Women’s History Month, we turn the spotlight to a female-led venture capital firm that is out to change women’s lives for the better.