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Senior Vice President and Associate Provost at Rush University Medical Center
Health Leads
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Health, Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Obesity Medicine Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor & Associate Program Director for Faculty Development of the Medicine Residency Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Director at Disparities Solutions Center
Deputy Director at Disparities Solutions Center
Senior Faculty at Disparities Solutions Center
Senior Faculty at Disparities Solutions Center
Chief Resident, Partners Neurology Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital
Pediatrics Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital
Contributing writer, Physician's First Watch; Host, Clinical Conversations
This forum talks about health inequity, or, in the blunt words of the subtitle of David A. Ansell's new book, how inequality kills.
"Health Affairs" has devoted its latest issue to pursuing health equity, and we've invited some of its writers to participate here. Dr. Ansell's "The Death Gap" will be another focus of our discussions, and another will be the efforts of organizations like Health Leads to break the link between poverty and illness. You, of course, will come up with other themes to enrich the interplay of ideas.
We can't pretend that health equality is possible, but we do need to come to grips with facts like this: the life expectancy of a person in a Connecticut suburb and that of a rural Mississippian differs by 35 years – and no, there's no decimal between the three and the five.
Join us as we examine this Gordian knot. Its unravelling won't come from the clinic alone.
[A reasonable introduction to the problem can be found in an interview we did with Dr. Ansell earlier this month: podcasts.jwatch.org/index.php/... ]
Senior Vice President and Associate Provost at Rush University Medical Center
Health Leads
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Health, Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Obesity Medicine Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor & Associate Program Director for Faculty Development of the Medicine Residency Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Director at Disparities Solutions Center
Deputy Director at Disparities Solutions Center
Senior Faculty at Disparities Solutions Center
Senior Faculty at Disparities Solutions Center
Chief Resident, Partners Neurology Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital
Pediatrics Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital
Contributing writer, Physician's First Watch; Host, Clinical Conversations