Posts Tagged ‘Racial Bias and Equity’
“This Season Calls for Us to Be Powerful”: EQTY 2025 Event Champions Progress Amid Pressures
Esteemed national leaders like Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Dr. Michael Eric Dyson convened at Boston Medical Center Health System’s third annual conference to build strategies and momentum to push forward against multiple intersecting headwinds in healthcare.
Read MoreThe Impact of Pharmacoequity: How a 7-Year-Old’s Malaria Case Revealed Medication Access Issues
Pharmacoequity means that every person—regardless of race, ethnicity, income, or background—should have timely access to the medications that best manage their health needs. What happens when that is not the case?
Read MoreCEOs Unite at Union Chapel to Explore How Wealth and Health Shape Your Legacy
With its own rich legacy, the historic church was an apt location to host an acclaimed panel of leaders to speak about building a life that allows you, and the generations that come after you, to thrive.
Read More“Our Elders Have Modeled Suffering”: Candid Panel Pushes Back on Health Myths, Shame for Black Women
On Martha’s Vineyard, actresses, advocates, and physicians have come together to have a taboo-breaking discussion about their personal and professional experiences with menopause, parenting, and advocating for your health and wellness.
Read More4 BMC Innovations that Have Advanced Black Maternal Health
In commemoration of Black Maternal Health Week BMC, these four articles show how BMC is committed to delivering equitable maternal healthcare.
Read MoreWhat Is Systemic Racism in Healthcare?: Causes, Impacts, and Solutions
Systemic racism in healthcare manifests as deeply ingrained racial bias and discrimination that creates disparities in access, treatment, and outcomes. See how BMC is working to effect change.
Read More7 Ways to Close the Racial Gap in Addiction Treatment, BMC Study Finds
The Grayken Center for Addiction pioneers a community-led research approach to making addiction treatment more appealing, effective, and equitable for Black patients.
Read MoreHealthCity’s Top 5 Articles of 2024
The most-read articles of this last year showcase healthcare’s deepening impact on the systems and structures that affect health, beyond the exam room
Read MorePracticing ‘Sawubona’ to Build a Legacy of Mental Health Care in Africa and the Diaspora
Boston Medical Center’s Chief of Psychiatry co-founded the Africa Global Mental Health Institute to address the urgent need for culturally sensitive mental healthcare on the continent and beyond.
Read MoreIn Its Second Year, BMCHS’ Health Equity Accelerator Sees Racial Gaps Closing for Pregnancy and Diabetes
The initiative will begin to tackle gaps in cancer screenings in 2024.
Read MoreNeighborhood Birth Center Plans Move Forward in Roxbury
Nubian Square birthing center will offer a home-like setting with comprehensive care and programming.
Read MoreA Health Equity Trailblazer Shares Her Own Story of Medical Gaslighting
Uché Blackstock, MD, shared her story with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley at a BMC Health System talk to commemorate Black history month.
Read More