WHY HEALTH EQUITY?
WHY NOW?
Despite significant advances in healthcare innovation and technology, racialized health inequities have persisted and even worsened over the last century. These trends persist due to the expansive reach of systemic racism on Black communities and other communities of color. Healthcare organizations must act now to mitigate the root causes of these inequities.
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WHY HEALTH EQUITY?
WHY NOW?
Despite significant advances in healthcare innovation and technology, racialized health inequities have persisted and even worsened over the last century. These trends persist due to the expansive reach of systemic racism on Black communities and other communities of color. Healthcare organizations must act now to mitigate the root causes of these inequities.
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Systemic Racism in Healthcare
Historical and ongoing discrimination in healthcare has detrimentally affected the health of Black communities. AHE can help healthcare organizations to understand the roots causes of current-day racialized health inequities and provide strategies to help close the gaps.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic & Black Communities
The pandemic has exposed and amplified pre-existing racial health inequities. AHE can adeptly dissect the multiple factors, related to systemic racism, responsible for these disturbing trends and engage with your organization to mobilize for health equity.
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Advancing Racial Equity in the Workplace
Using a racial equity lens, AHE will identify your organizational culture, as well as key areas of organizational change necessary to evolve into an equitable, anti-racist workplace. AHE can also provide technical assistance in order to increase your organization’s racial equity capacity.
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Assessments, Training, Capacity Building and Consulting Services
Our team works diligently to close gaps in knowledge or equitable practice with our partner organizations. We understand that some institutions may be at the beginning of their journey; we start with assessing the institution, creating a strategy, and working to execute it with stakeholders.
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What it’s like to work with Advancing Health Equity:
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Our experience working with AHE was positive and productive. Their trainings were engaging and relevant and connected with our staff on both a professional and personal level. The feedback from the Equity Audit process…
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Dr. Blackstock and her team of facilitators created a learning experience that was professionally executed and highly engaging, even in a virtual environment. Their high level of expertise on the topics of racism in healthcare…
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I felt the program was very well designed and engaging, particularly for health care professionals and surgeons. The program was very informative from the ground up laying thoughtfully curated content and historical background…
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It was a gift that Dr. Blackstock shared her time and lived experience with us; that she even does this kind of work given her credentials, experiences, and training is a truly humanitarian action that draws everyone in…
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Dr. Blackstock is an inspirational and motivating facilitator, who speaks powerfully about ways to address unconscious bias to promote health equity. Her message and facilitation style takes you on an experiential and…
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We were thrilled to have Dr. Blackstock for our health equity Grand Rounds. Her training on mobilizing for health equity and mitigating unconscious bias encouraged a deeper understanding of the profound impact of…
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Dr. Blackstock was amazing. During the webinar, we moved between my questions and those posed by the community. She literally fielded questions for over an hour, questions from the community who had really…
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I did a lot of research in finding the right Unconscious Bias training program for our university and School of Medicine partners. I wanted a solution that could deliver engaging training with excellent customer service at reasonable pricing…
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What struck me the most about Dr. Blackstock’s presentation was the shared energy in the room. She skillfully created a safe space — you could feel the truth of that space. The audience leaned in together, paused together, and laughed together…
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The topic of bias is a sensitive one, and Dr. Blackstock does an excellent job creating an approachable, safe environment that allows participants to be productively introspective and questioning without getting defensive…
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Having Dr. Blackstock present on Unconscious Bias as part of monthly Continuing Education seminars was a revelation. Dr. Blackstock presented material on explicit and implicit bias in healthcare in an innovative, informative and thought-provoking…
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Dr. Blackstock has a wonderful way of making the complex concepts of bias and its impact seem both accessible and urgent at the same time. She is an engaging speaker who uses data to make, but not overwhelm her point…
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Dr. Blackstock actively takes on some of the most challenging issues like the detrimental impact of explicit and implicit biases and works collaboratively to develop strategies to create more inclusive and affirming practices
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An innovative leader in diversity, equity, and inclusion in healthcare, Dr. Blackstock combines evidence, experience, and content expertise in the provision of digestible, yet powerful, unconscious bias trainings. Her creative workshop activities…
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Dr. Blackstock sheds light on the important topics of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; and makes these complex issues more clear and the impact on people, teams, and organizations easier to understand. She speaks from passion…
- ACS: https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/cancer-articles/black-women-more-likely-to-die-from-breast-cancer
- RWJF: https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/interactives/whereyouliveaffectshowlongyoulive.html
- US News: https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2018-08-31/why-america-needs-more-black-doctors
- CDC: Reference link
- RWJF: Reference Link
- US News: Reference Link