Health Equity Week, hosted by Northwestern University's McGaw Medical Center, is a significant event that aims to address healthcare inequities through educational programming. This year marked its fifth iteration, featuring key presentations from healthcare leaders. The week highlights the importance of transforming discussions into action to dismantle barriers in healthcare access. Notable sessions examined topics such as reproductive healthcare and specific identity categories for Asian Americans, emphasizing the need for nuanced representation in medical research to effectively address disparities.
We know that Health Equity Week is more than just learning. It's about action. It's about challenging ourselves to recognize and dismantle barriers that keep healthcare from truly being accessible and inclusive for all communities.
The week sourced truth and explored not only the persistence of health inequities but also root causes. These issues don't go away by pen stroke. And as we should in a leading academic medical center, we host difficult discussion, because it is how we learn.
It used to be that when we took surveys and when we did research, we as a collective really only offered an individual category for Asian Americans. This hid the nuanced disparities within that group.
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