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PART ONE OF A TWO-PART SERIES On August 11, 2020, I was honored to give a special lecture on The Future of Health Disparities after COVID-19 at the second annual Best Practices Conference entitled “Reconsidering Health Care in the Era of Pandemics” hosted by Healthfirst and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. I ask myself how can …
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PART TWO OF A TWO-PART SERIES Last week, I began to explain the future of health disparities after COVID-19 in Part I of this series by highlighting what the world has witnessed during this pandemic. Feel free to read Part I here. This week, I will lay the groundwork on reimagining a healthcare system that works …
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By Marla Becker On Friday Juneteenth, our Co-founder and CEO Gil Addo moderated a live 75min webinar featuring an esteemed panel of Black Healthcare Leaders – Julian Harris, MD, Partner at Deerfield Management Company, Toyin Ajayi MD, Chief Health Officer and Co-founder at Cityblock Health and Errol L Pierre, Senior Vice President at Healthfirst – on Racism, Inequality, and the US Healthcare System in partnership …
by Heather Landi The COVID-19 pandemic is hitting low-income, underserved populations particularly hard, experts say. Many people who have been furloughed or lost their jobs are struggling to pay for basic needs, increasing the risk for food insecurity and homelessness in some neighborhoods in hard-hit areas like New York and New Jersey. And in communities of color …
June is Men’s Health Month. The Health & Wellness committee of One Hundred Black Men spent the past 27 days raising awareness of preventable health problems and health concerns disproportionately impacting the African-American community. Louis Baldwin and I had the amazing opportunity to sit down with Mayor David Dinkins and discuss these activities on his Saturday …
