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Section: Disparities
Disparities
Why Black Doctors Like Me Are Leaving Faculty Positions in Academic Medical Centers
A decade ago, the Department of Health and Human Services made “to achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups” one of its goals for Healthy People 2020. It didn’t come close. Black Americans continue to experience some of the worst health outcomes of any racial group. Black men have the […]
January 17, 2020
Disparities
Partnership Encourages Native American Students to Pursue Health Care Careers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. January 15, 2020 – The UC Davis School of Medicine has joined with two other universities and a regional health board in a collaborative effort to increase the number of Native Americans practicing health care. The joint project, called Reimagine Indians into Medicine, or RISE, stands to substantially increase the total number of […]
January 17, 2020
Disparities
Barriers Steer Minority Med Students Away From Dermatology
Minority medical students perceived a number of factors as deterring them from pursuing careers in dermatology, according to survey results. One was the current lack of diversity in dermatology, according to Yssra Soliman, BA, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, and colleagues in JAMA Dermatology. They noted that African-Americans and Hispanics […]
January 13, 2020
Disparities
Chicago Group Shows Hispanic Medical Students a Path to Medicine
Growing up in Miami, Florida, Pilar Ortega, MD, had a Latino doctor and grew up in a community that included her family that emigrated from Spain and neighbors from Cuba, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Central America. It wasn’t until she was in college—and then even more so in medical school and residency—that she learned how […]
December 9, 2019
Disparities
White Coats for Black Lives Evaluates Diversity at Select Medical Schools
Diversity is essential to combat healthcare disparities, but a recent report shows that the number of underrepresented minorities graduating from U.S. medical schools is still disproportionately low. White Coats for Black Lives (WC4BL) was formed by medical students in 2014 with the vision of safeguarding the well-being of patients and eliminating racial bias in healthcare. […]
December 2, 2019
Disparities
At Darke County Hospital, Workplace Diversity is ‘More Than a Policy’
Despite representing a large portion of the total workforce, women in healthcare represent a minority among leadership positions, according to a 2019 study. That’s not the case at Wayne HealthCare, the independent hospital northwest of Dayton that boasts a female-majority senior leadership team. Read More
December 2, 2019
Disparities
Untimely Death of Bernard Tyson Inspires Tributes To A Leader in Healthcare And Corporate Diversity
Tributes continue to pour in for Bernard Tyson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, who unexpectedly passed away early Sunday at the age of 60. Tyson ran the nation’s largest nonprofit integrated healthcare provider since 2013 and designed an industry-transforming model of tech innovation, strategic investment and affordable healthcare during a career that spanned three […]
November 18, 2019
Disparities
Will Term Limits Fix Academic Medicine’s Diversity Problem?
The National Institutes of Health has announced a plan to enforce 12-year term limits for tenured laboratory and branch chiefs; however, such a limit has yet to be enacted in academic medicine. Authors of an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine argue that lack of term limits on leadership positions at academic […]
November 18, 2019
Disparities
Transgender Students Push for More Resources
Students are responsible for many of NYU’s structural changes — it was students who got the school to remove a question about incarceration from the common application, who protested its old dining service provider, Aramark, prior to its transition to Chartwells and who were part of a task force that led to the creation of […]
November 18, 2019
Disparities
UMN Student Group Enters Fight to Combat Racism in Medicine
A group of second-year medical students is trying to improve treatment of patients of color in a historically white healthcare system. The University of Minnesota’s chapter of White Coats for Black Lives was established in 2014 and works to increase diversity and awareness of racism in the medical field. WCBL is especially focused on curriculum, […]
November 18, 2019
Disparities
Hampton University Professor Leads Initiative To Bring Health Screenings To Black Barbershops
There is power that lies in the cultural influence of barbershops; especially within the Black community. These establishments have become far more than places where folks come to get their haircut; they’ve evolved into safe spaces where everything from political and social issues to health are discussed. A group of students from Hampton University is […]
November 4, 2019
Disparities
Most UH Students are People of Color but Their Teachers are Mainly White
The University of Hawaii has made progress diversifying its faculty over the past several decades, but the faculty at its flagship campus are still disproportionately white compared with the majority Asian-Pacific Islander student body. At Manoa, the university’s research campus, about 60% of tenured faculty are white compared with less than 24% of the student […]
October 28, 2019
Disparities
UT-Austin Seeks To Diversify STEM Faculty Ranks
AUSTIN, TX — The University of Texas at Austin has joined 19 other universities in a three-year effort to develop and strengthen inclusive recruitment, hiring and retention practices for STEM faculty members, school officials announced on Tuesday. The initiative is part of the Aspire Alliance, co-led by The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) […]
October 28, 2019
Disparities
Increasing Diversity Remains Focus of Office of the Provost
Boston College, led by Vice Provost for Faculties Billy Soo, is working to continue to diversify its faculty population through a variety of programs and initiatives. Forty-two percent of the current faculty is female and 20.4 percent is AHANA+, according to Soo. As with racial diversity, an obstacle to increased gender diversification at BC is […]
October 28, 2019
Disparities
Georgia State University Looks to Improve Faculty Diversity
Georgia State University leaders determined a few years ago they had a problem. While numerous studies found the university has one of the most racially diverse student bodies in the nation, there was not that same level of diversity among its faculty. There weren’t enough women in front of the classroom as well. Read More
October 28, 2019
Disparities
University of Georgia Does Away With Transgender Health Care Exclusions
The University of Georgia is dropping its exclusion of transgender-related treatments and procedures in its employee health insurance. The change comes as part of settling a lawsuit very similar to one filed in North Carolina earlier this year. Read More
October 7, 2019
Disparities
Bennington College Starting New Population Health Fellowship With SVMC
BENNINGTON — Caring for people when they’re sick is one thing. Taking into account other things that contribute to health, and helping people before they’re sick, is another. In a new partnership, Bennington College and Southwestern Vermont Medical Center plan to offer six students paid, health-related internship opportunities this winter in an inaugural Population Health […]
October 7, 2019
Disparities
Georgia College Workers Push for Lower Health Care Costs
Employees at five University System of Georgia schools hit the streets on their campuses Wednesday and called colleagues to seek support for their demands that the system rescind its plan to increase worker health care costs next year. The state’s Board of Regents, which oversees University System operations, voted in September to raise employee health […]
October 7, 2019
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