Health Equity in America: The Past, The Present, and the Future

Join us for a conversation with award-winning journalist Linda Villarosa and Leandris Liburd, Ph.D., CDC’s associate director for minority health and health equity. The pandemic illuminated racial disparities in COVID-19 related deaths, with Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous populations dying at more than double the rates of whites. But, health disparities are not new. From life [...]

Complex Needs Through a Health Equity Lens: What Can Philanthropy Actually Do?

The health and well-being of those who have faced a lifetime of structural racism are impacted much more strongly than other groups, especially as they age; for example, Black older people are dying from COVID-19 at 3.6 times the rate of older whites. Philanthropy has responded to many immediate needs, but if the system of [...]

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