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Conversations with Health Law Leaders David S. Cade, Executive Vice President and CEO of AHLA, sat down with Daniel E. Dawes, JD, and other prominent health leaders on May 25, 2021, to discuss how we, as a community, can improve equity in health care and health law practice. LEARN MORE: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/publications/health-law-hub-current-topics/dei-in-health-care/equity-in-health-care-and-health-law-practice

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Dismantling barriers Another keynote speaker, Daniel Dawes, called CHA's equity pledge "one of the boldest calls to action that I have seen." Dawes is director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine and is its associate lead for government relations. He's also an author whose newest book, The Political Determinants of Health, addresses the question of how policy and politics influence the social conditions that generate health outcomes. Dawes said that the social determinants of health in communities, such as economic stability and access to health care, can be traced back to political decisions. "Simply stated, the nation's health is…

Authored by: Kyle R. MacDonald, Danielle Barrasse, and Myrela Bauman Posted: June 28, 2021 In public health, much of our work depends on having accurate data, so we know what’s happening both on the ground and at a population level. Unfortunately, in many cases data has erased diversity by collapsing distinct groups of people into “convenient” categories for statistical purposes. This erasure frequently occurs when people from across the Americas are all labeled as Hispanic/Latinx, when hundreds of distinct tribal communities are all coded as American Indian, or when everyone who is not cis-gender or heterosexual is grouped together as LGBTQ+. Sometimes these groupings…

Josh (@DrJIsrael) and Brian (@bchiglinsky) are joined by Daniel Dawes (@DanielEDawes), the Director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. He is a professor of health law, policy and management and author. They discuss the long and challenging history of efforts in America to promote equity in health care and why it’s so important to have good data to make meaningful improvements to health inequity https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/103-150-years-of-obamacare/id1438675671?i=1000526250680