For Immediate Release
Roundtable on Efforts Toward Achieving Health Equity
Contact: Kathryn Ryan
914-740-2250
kryan@liebertpub.com
New Rochelle, NY, January 8, 2024–In the Roundtable titled “A Glimpse at How Stakeholders Are Working Towards Achieving Health Equity,” published in the peer-reviewed journal Health Equity, two expert panel discussions examine efforts to achieve maternal health equity and changes that health systems can make to operationalize health equity. Click here to read the Roundtable now.
The moderator of the panel discussion titled “Efforts to Achieve Maternal Health Equity Today” is Laurie Zephyrin, MD, MPH, MBA, Senior Vice President, Advancing Health Equity, The Commonwealth Fund. The discussion focuses on what health systems can do to improve maternal health outcomes and what are the current opportunities to develop and/or modify policies to improve maternal health care.
The moderator of the panel discussion titled “Changes Health Systems Can Make to Operationalize Health Equity” is Morenike Ayo-Vaughan, Program Officer, Advancing Health Equity, The Commonwealth Fund. The discussion focused on the strategies deployed to ensure the accurate collection of race, ethnicity, and language data by healthcare stakeholders, and what measures health systems and providers are utilizing and adopting to get a good sense of how they are achieving health equity.
About the Journal
Health Equity is a peer-reviewed open access journal that meets the urgent need for authoritative information about health disparities and health equity among vulnerable populations. With coverage ranging from translational research to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of disease and illness, the Journal serves as a primary resource for organizations and individuals who serve these populations at the community, state, regional, tribal, and national levels. Complete information is available on the Health Equity website.
About the Publisher
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is a global media company dedicated to creating, curating, and delivering impactful peer-reviewed research and authoritative content services to advance the fields of biotechnology and the life sciences, specialized clinical medicine, and public health and policy. For complete information, please visit the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. website.