. Dr. Aletha Maybank, Chief Health Equity Officer of AMA, and Richard Besser, President and CEO of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will address how healthcare systems and communities are confronting structural racism to improve health outcomes for all. #AspenIdeasHealth (5/8)

The human impact of segregated care is clear. It’s past time for action. Dr. Mary T. Bassett Camara Jones Dr. Aletha Maybank Orriel Richardson Laurie Zephyrin MD Toyin Ajayi Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith Daniel E. Dawes Tish James David Ansell Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 Stella Safo, MD MPH Usha Lee McFarling Rhea Boyd MD, MPH Oxiris Barbot

Feeling so inspired & full after this event. Here are some pics, including one of uché blackstock, md assuring me that everything I’ve worked for my whole life won’t slip through my fingers if I rest. 🥹

Thank you to Dr. Aletha Maybank Jenna Flanagan & Brooklyn Org!

The first Black-Owned children’s bookstore in Raleigh opened last year on Juneteenth.

Next week it will close due to numerous racist threats.

Imagine how depraved you have to be to threaten a family owned & operated children’s bookstore just because it’s Black owned.

'No child is born with hate. Hate is taught.'

– UN adviser on genocide prevention Alice Wairimu Nderitu on the dangers of hate speech & intolerance.

On Sunday, we mark 30 years since the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. un.org/en/preventgeno… #Kwibuka

“There will be absolutely no accountability of what they did in Gaza for the past six months. This is what pains me.” Exiled Egyptian heart surgeon-turned-satirist Bassem Youssef blasts the Israeli government for the carnage in Gaza, where his wife has family.

.World Health Organization (WHO) and partners managed to reach Al-Shifa — once the backbone of the health system in #Gaza , which is now an empty shell with human graves after the latest siege. The team witnessed at least five dead bodies during the mission.

Most of the buildings in the hospital complex…

The scenes out of Al-Shifa hospital are horrific and nightmarish. Hospitals, healthcare workers, and patients must be protected.

As a physician and health equity advocate, I am horrified and heartbroken.

Riding the Subway With Guns. My latest, The Trace thetrace.org/2024/03/new-yo… W. W. Norton & Company #WhatWeveBecome #gunsense #gunviolence #gunsafety #NewYorkCity

Explore how structural competency, critical race theory and participatory action research can be used to implement critical pedagogy and prepare trainees for reflection and action that motivate #healthequity with the AMA Journal of Ethics. amaedhub.org/4a72zru

When Dr. Aletha Maybank speaks, it’s worth pulling up a chair. Grateful for her honest sharing of what it’s like to navigate equity work in medicine right now.

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Exceptionally timely in NEJM amidst further politicization of #DEI work.

This piece makes clear the necessity (& the arduousness) of an inside-outside strategy to advance health justice — and it’s written by someone I am truly grateful to call a mentor & friend Dr. Aletha Maybank

As leaders of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within academic, medical, and corporate institutions strive to improve equity and health for all, they are facing attacks from all sides. Read the new Perspective by Dr. Aletha Maybank: nej.md/4crK2Iz

I’m happy to announce the 6 month results from the SECOND United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) policy surrounding the elimination of Black race to diagnose and manage kidney disease. This policy required all US transplant centers review their waitlists and modify time for qualifying Black individuals.

This is a great profile of Abigail Echo-Hawk, who has been an incredible advocate for #indigenous health for years.

The Unapologetic ‘Auntie’ of Indigenous Data buff.ly/3GHwb1W by Susan Shain via The New York Times CC: Senator Patty Murray Sen. Maria Cantwell Melissa Walls Dr. Aletha Maybank

The UN says nearly seven million people are now internally displaced within the Democratic Republic of Congo due to escalating violence.
According to the UN, the DRC is facing one of the world's biggest displacement and humanitarian crises. bbc.in/3FEvwha

Attacks on health care in #Gaza are unacceptable.

Besides an attack on ambulances near Al Shifa hospital with at least 13 people killed and 60 injured, two further attacks were reported yesterday at Al-Quds Hospital and near the Indonesian Hospital.

The key medicine all these…

Look forward to Linda Villarosa Ryan Petteway, DrPH, MPH Vikas Saini of Lown Institute and Elena Mendez-Escobar, MBA, PhD in conversation for the next Nat’l #HealthEquity Grand Rounds on October 10

On Sep 28, the first #TruthandTransformation panel will start from square one: roadmaps.

Roadmaps determine the course of an organization's antiracist transformation — & are therefore critical for ensuring accountability.

Feat. Dr. Aletha Maybank, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano & Chitra Kumar.