"Health equity is about fixing health gaps that are fixable," he said. "And often, health inequity reflects an injustice, in that we have not paid enough attention to what can be fixed." Putting it in ...

Improving health equity is part of the core of quality improvement and requires data collection and community engagement strategies for underserved populations, said Shawn Griffin, MD, president and ...

I didn’t think that I would be writing about ultraprocessed food again this soon, but a kerfuffle at the National Institutes of Health over a recently published study nudged my hand. The study in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover transformation and innovation across the health care industry. The last five years ushered in a wave of performative ...

In an era of DEI backlash and political polarization, brands are more swayed by the fear of missteps than they are motivated ...

Antoine Keller, MD, argued the value of grounding health care policy in equity as clinicians prepare for a changing health care landscape in the coming years. “To me, the most important parts of ...

A new evidence-based framework aims to establish a U.S. industry standard for measuring health equity efforts. Put out by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the white paper has been in ...

Beyer is an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. As a pediatrician and a scientist-in-training, I conduct research on a critical question ...