Health equity drives system leadership as executives prioritize community health, social determinants, and value-based care strategies.

Defined by the World Health Organization as systematic differences in the health status of different population groups, health inequity remains a fundamental issue in our healthcare system and society ...

The WHO’s Taking a Strategic Approach to Urban Health urges governments to treat city health as a cross-sectoral, long-term ...

Digital technologies can enhance infection detection and patient safety, but risk creating two-tier health systems that ...

This is Part 1 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In ...

Unmet health-related social needs (HRSN) undergird and often exacerbate poor health outcomes and quality of life. These critical health-influencing factors disproportionately impact members of ...

Sophia Humphreys, PharmD, MHA, BCBBS, discusses common barriers to cancer therapy and how care teams can assist patients in ...

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is taking business operations and everyday life by storm, and the healthcare industry isn't immune. The next few years will likely see significant leaps in ...

(Editor’s note: The federal government has removed several web pages linked to in this brief. Where possible, links to archived versions have been inserted.) Data are the cornerstone of public health ...

Susan Escudier, MD, discusses the practical implications of financial barriers for patients with cancer accessing oncology ...

Beyer is an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. As a pediatrician and a scientist-in-training, I conduct research on a critical question ...