JAMA Network January 17, 2024
Joseph Wright, MD, MPH, and his team at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) are in the midst of a herculean task—reviewing the AAP’s catalog of roughly 400 policies, guidelines, and algorithms to identify those that inappropriately use race as a proxy for biology and may exacerbate health disparities. The goal is to replace them with race-conscious approaches that explicitly aim to enhance equity.
“We cannot ignore the impact that race and ethnicity have on differential lived experiences and that those lived experiences contribute to differential health status and health outcomes,” Wright, chief equity officer and senior vice president of equity initiatives at the AAP, said in an interview.
While he and his team started with the 150 or so...
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