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Dr. Gail Christopher’s Statement on a Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Commission
February 26, 2021FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 26, 2021 Contact: Michael K. Frisby mike@Frisbyassociates.com/202-625-4328 Statement by Dr. Gail C. Christopher, Executive Director, National Collaborative for Health Equity A TRUTH, RACIAL...
“Beyond Declarative Advocacy: Moving Organized Medicine And Policy Makers From Position Statements To Anti-Racist Praxis,” Rohan Khazanchi, Faith Crittenden, Anna S. Heffron, Emily C. Cleveland Manchanda, Karthik Sivashanker, Aletha Maybank.
February 25, 2021...
AHIP Policy Recommendations to Achieve Greater Impact on Reducing Disparities & Advancing Health Equity
February 24, 2021America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Policy Recommendations As the federal-state program providing access to essential health care to over 77 million low-income adults, children, pregnant women, elderly adults, and people with disabilities,...
HOPE Initiative: “Inspiring ‘HOPE’ and action toward achieving racial and health equity in our lifetime.”
February 23, 2021...
Texas Blackout Reveals Deep Impact of Environmental Racism, Aid Organizers Say
February 22, 2021By Candice Bernd, Truthout (read...
White People Are Getting Vaccinated at Higher Rates Than Black and Latino Americans
February 10, 2021By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Deidre McPhillips (CNN) Black and Latino Americans are receiving the Covid-19 vaccine at significantly lower rates than White people -- a disparity that health advocates blame on the federal government and hospitals not...
Black History Month 2021 Celebration Comes in Wake of Widespread Protests over George Floyd’s Death, Racial Reckoning in U.S.
February 4, 2021By Karen Jordan CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's been 45 years since the first observation of Black History Month. This year, the celebration of the contributions of Black people comes in the wake of widespread protests over the death of George Floyd and a...
NCHE’s Executive Director Dr. Gail Christopher Gives Interview With Roll Call’s Mary Curtis
February 1, 2021Social change agent Dr. Gail C Christopher is on a mission to heal our nation, and dismantle the collective belief at the core of our dysfunction: that some lives are worth more than others. Dr. Christopher has been advising Congress on how we can...
North Carolina Hospitals Join Others in Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis
January 29, 2021BY RICHARD STRADLING https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article247235884.html (Read...
If racism is a lie, how has it been sustained, institutionalized and structured in America?
January 28, 2021...