Below are some featured publications highlighting voices from Compact members, Compact member organizations, and our ongoing work, including the recent Health Equity Trends Summit on June 13th, 2023. For a full list of publications pertaining to the Health Equity Trends Summit, click here.
The Health Equity Compact’s landmark bill, An Act to Advance Health Equity, will be heard by the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, featuring a series of panels and testimonies on Wednesday, September 20th, 2023.
The Health Equity Compact continues to grow its membership, incorporating increasingly diverse and talented professionals.
The new Institute for Health Equity Research, Evaluation, and Policy will focus on “emancipatory research,” which will examine and attempt to address health priorities as defined by marginalized and undeserved communities.
Panelists and speakers at the Summit called for addressing structural racism through collaboration, community involvement, and policy.
Compact members Dr. Guy Fish, Dr. Charles Anderson, and Michael Curry ask for state funding to address the workforce crisis, which has led to new patients waiting an average of nearly 80 days to see primary care providers.
Las comunidades de color enfrentan una carga desproporcionada del evitable gasto médico, pérdida de productividad laboral debido a la mala salud, y el costo de las muertes prematuras.
Bajo la dirección de Ann Hwang, MD, la fundación busca apoyar iniciativas que promuevan la equidad en la salud a través del trabajo comunitario
Attorney General Campbell, keynote speaker at the Health Equity Trends Summit, sits down with Java with Jimmy to discuss health disparities in Massachusetts.
The economic toll of health inequities for people of color in Massachusetts is at least $5.9 billion a year, according to a new study that aims to make a financial case for ending disparities.
Compact members Drs. Allison Bryant and Bisola Ojikutu and Senator Liz Miranda bring attention to Massachusetts’s Black maternal health crisis and needed policy and programmatic solutions.
The Health Equity Compact wishes to recognize founding supporters JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., and Foley Hoag LLP for their invaluable work: JSI for technical assistance and research from the very beginning of the Compact; and Foley Hoag for pro bono legal skill and expertise in developing and writing An Act to Advance Health Equity.
