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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

Honoring Juneteenth Juneteenth is more than just a celebration of freedom.  It represents long-standing hope and promise of change to come.  Since the reading of General Order Number 3 by General Gordon Granger in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, to the present day, Juneteenth recognitions possess an air of joy and achievement while remembering the struggle of a people who could only hold on to the hope of freedom and better times. This past week’s passage of the “Juneteenth National Independence Day Act,” designating Juneteenth as a legal public holiday marks a culture shift in how our society recognizes slavery’s place in the history of our…

A NEW TRACKER HIGHLIGHTS THE RACIAL DISPARITIES—AND THE MISSING DATA—IN AMERICA’S COVID-19 OUTBREAKS Betsy LadyzhetsFederal dataCDC, federal data, interview, race & ethnicity data, race dataLeave a comment Screenshot of the Health Equity Tracker showing which states are missing race and ethnicity data for COVID-19 cases.  Two weeks ago, a major new COVID-19 data source came on the scene: the Health Equity Tracker, developed by the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine. This tracker incorporates data from the CDC, the Census, and other sources to provide comprehensive information on which communities have been…

HEALTH EQUITY VIDEO SERIES The Satcher Health Leadership Institute worked with the Google.org Fellows team to launch their Health Equity Tracker! Hear from Dr. David Satcher and Daniel E. Dawes in the first episode of the Health Equity Series, where they dive into the political determinants of health.  WATCH NOW      

“Mental Health Awareness Equity Month” By: Madhuri Jha, LCSW, MPH (she/her/hers) – Director, Kennedy-Satcher Center for Mental Health Equity One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, it is again Mental Health Awareness Month. This pandemic has exposed systemic fractures in healthcare, where already disenfranchised populations now face an unstable resource base to meet their needs. National attention to urgent issues like police brutality and anti-Asian rhetoric have generated an era where social justice is a prioritized talking point for leaders across disciplines. “Equity” has become a buzz word -- a word that carries power, if approached thoughtfully and…