Health Equity
We explore the root causes of health disparities that drive poorer health outcomes, and health policy to advance health equity for all.
Building thriving communities and advancing health equity require improving the interrelated social and economic conditions at the root causes of health outcomes. This includes ensuring that health communication, access, and delivery reflect the needs, experiences, and unique characteristics of historically excluded people.
Health Equity
Highlights
Mapping the Journey: Building a Mutual Understanding for Health Equity in Clinical Research
If the objective of biomedical research is to spur innovation to create healthier communities, extend life, and more effectively treat or cure disease, then persistent inequities run counter to that goal and create unnecessary barriers to...Read Report
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A Call to Action for Health Equity: Solutions from the Front Lines for Local and National Efforts
FasterCures is advancing system change within biomedical research to focus on and value diversity and representation within clinical trials and the workforce. In addition to our “ Achieving Health Equity” report, we released a Policy Issue...Read Report
A Call to Action for Diversity in Clinical Trials
FasterCures has initiated a body of work to advance system change within biomedical research to focus on and value diversity and representation within clinical trials. Following our report, ' Achieving Health Equity: A Multi-Stakeholder...Read Brief
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WIC Waiver Tracker
Consolidated source of COVID-19 program updates to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). In response to COVID-19, USDA authorized several waivers to provide necessary flexibilities for WIC to...View ResearchConsolidated source of COVID-19 program updates to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
Our Social Contract and the Coronavirus Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has created a moment of choice. America has always struggled to balance its first principle to the conservation of high-quality lives against the demands of economic interest. In his first draft of the Declaration...Read Essay
COVID-19, Gender, and a More Equitable Response for Sub-Saharan Africa
“Despite its global nature, the impacts of COVID-19 are not evenly distributed. The health, economic, social and political effects are hitting women harder across the globe, and across the African continent. It is time then to both...Read Article
A Diseased Nation: COVID-19 as a Deadly Symptom of Systemic Racism in the US
The COVID-19 pandemic is amplifying the entanglement of systemic racism and health in our country. As the number of US cases continues to rise, pockets of data are revealing that African American communities are being disproportionately...Read Essay
Thought Leadership
There is a critical need for systemic and structural change to achieve health equity—an outcome that is ethical, humane, and responsible. The time to act is now.
It is time to collaborate with those denied their fundamental right to good health outcomes and elevate their stories into data driven evidence-based interventions. It is time to turn their pain into unwavering action.