MassMutual Is Making the Business Case for Advancing Health Equity
With its partnership with Boston Medical Center, MassMutual Foundation believes that serving its community also best serves its employees and company as a whole.
Read MoreStreetCred Has Advice for New Parents: Open a 529 Plan
Boston Medical Center’s tax-prep program explains the broader benefits of opening a college savings account and will help families do it.
Read MoreExperts Are Digging Deeper Into What Exactly Drives Racial Inequities in Pregnancy Outcomes
Research shows that Black women are more likely to die of pregnancy-related complications. But how and why? BMC experts are making it their goal to find out.
Read MoreWhat Are Social Determinants of Health?
“We recognize that until we can reduce the negative impact of a person’s environment, we can’t get them healthy,” says David Henderson.
Read MoreWhy BMCHS Just Launched Its Health Equity Accelerator
The new Accelerator works to eliminate the barriers that perpetuate injustice in healthcare and ensures that everyone can live a healthy life, regardless of their race or ethnicity.
Read MoreClosing the Opportunity Divide to Transform Health Trajectories
As a Year Up partner, the hospital is disrupting systemic barriers to education that force young adults into cycles of poverty and poor health, instead creating pathways to economic mobility.
Read More‘Good Intentions Aren’t Enough’: Forum Examines Structural Racism
In ‘The State of Race,’ experts shine a light on the existing inequities laid bare by the pandemic and the need to move beyond good intentions to real change.
Read MoreReversing Roles, Residents Teach Faculty — About Bias and Racism
A grassroots, resident-led series of case conferences addresses implicit bias and structural racism in medical education and clinical practice.
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