Prioritizing Equity: The Myth of Meritocracy in Medicine and Health Care
Discuss the myth of meritocracy, its presence in health care, and how physicians can move past it to advance health equity.
Discuss the myth of meritocracy, its presence in health care, and how physicians can move past it to advance health equity.
Discuss how advancing health equity requires sharing power through effective partnerships and alliances with those who have experienced marginalization, exploitation, expropriation, and injustice across generations.
Explore how dominant narratives perpetuate harm and how these narratives can be challenged and disrupted, moving towards equity-focused and person-first alternatives.
Discuss the myth of meritocracy, its presence in health care, and how physicians can move past it to advance health equity.
Describe the ways in which COVID-19 may uniquely impact LGBQ/TGNC (Transgender and Gender Nonconforming) communities.
This panel interview features thought leaders, authors, academicians, and experts in the medical field and beyond. It highlights those, past and present, who have named racism as a fundamental and root cause of health inequities and how health care practitioners…
In the latest installment of our Prioritizing Equity series, join practicing physicians and leaders in health care as they share how they are addressing root causes of inequity during COVID-19 and beyond by centering equity in their workspaces and dismantling…
Distinguish health equity data and the challenges of quantifying health inequities and the structural and social determinants of health.
Illuminate the ways in which COVID-19 may have uniquely impacted minoritized and marginalized communities.
Discuss approaches that emphasize racism, rather than race that will cover both immediate and long-term health equity considerations and impact, seeking to dismantle race-based medicine across clinical practice, education, and research across the country.
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