Nutritional disparities among communities of color in the United States have become a growing point of concern for public health officials in recent years. If we hope to dismantle the health and socioeconomic barriers that prevent so many Americans from thriving, providing the tools they...
Black Americans are nearly four times as likely as their white counterparts to be hospitalized following infection, and nearly three times as likely to die. Meanwhile, Hispanic Americans share a similar mortality rate, and are more than four times as likely to suffer a stint...
The historic election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris means a change at the White House as well as a dramatically different approach to health policy in the Humphrey Building. ...
The Health Equity Collaborative extends its sincere congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. ...
On October 15th LULAC, partnering with Health Equity Collaborative member ALLVanza, hosted an tele-event titled, “Innovation and the Future of Work in the Wake of COVID-19.”...
HEC Member Kevin Kimble and special guest Dr. Mike Ybarra, a board-certified emergency physician and Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs at PhRMA discuss the importance of an equitable vaccine development and distribution process and why COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting minority communities at higher...
The Health Equity Collaborative (HEC), a broad-based group comprised of national civil rights, progressive, and multicultural organizations applauds Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Kamala Harris (D-CA) for introducing a new resolution declaring racism a public health crisis....
The Health Equity Collaborative joined Feeding America along with 24 national organizations on a coalition letter to Congressional leadership urging swift action to increase benefits in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis....
June 18, 2020 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) just announced a new plan that will go a long way towards improving the lives of elderly Americans with diabetes. Effective 2021, every state in the country -- plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico...
June 5, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic is shining a light on longstanding disparities that minority Americans face on a daily basis -- greater incidence of chronic disease, poorer health outcomes, and higher unemployment rates.[1] Unfortunately, as these Americans desperately worry about the state of their health and...
The Health Equity Collaborative, along with 39 signatories including UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, NAACP, and American Federation of Teachers, released a coalition letter to HHS and the Congressional Tri-Caucus urging HHS to make more funding opportunities available to mitigate the effects of the pandemic. Recently, The Office of Minority...
The novel coronavirus has quickly evolved into the greatest public health crisis facing our nation. As Americans brace for a surge in positive diagnoses, it's critical to consider how we can protect those communities that are too often disproportionately impacted in healthcare -- minorities, non-native English...