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 ...

Early this year, The Black Directors Health Equity Agenda, BDHEA, hosted a national summit on advancing healthcare for Black Americans. Conversations centered around community health navigation, the ...

A new framework for health equity leadership lays out the key skills and conditions necessary for success. Over the past several years, as the pandemic exacerbated long-standing inequities, many ...

As health systems work to improve patient outcomes, health equity initiatives offer great promise for meaningful change. But there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution for addressing the complexities of ...

Health equity news appearing in the August issue of Evidence-Based Oncology. Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, of the American Medical Association (AMA) ...

Promote the idea that health equity is a core competency of governance (for more information, see Non-Profit Hospital Governance: Overview on Practical Law). Explain that governing bodies that take ...

Digital inclusion offers pathways to health equity by expanding access to the formal health care sector and supporting independent health management. Yet poverty- and education-related disparities ...

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 ...