Health Affairs September 30, 2020
A National Academy of Medicine (NAM) panel clearly conveyed that the nursing field must be socially and politically engaged in advocacy efforts to address the health inequities laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“As the most trusted among all health professionals, I can think of…no group better equipped to advance health equity,” said panelist Lisa Cooper, a professor at Johns Hopkins University and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. Panelist Kristine Qureshi, a professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, agreed. “Systemic inequities require policy change,” she said. “It is incumbent that nursing views that as one of their essential roles.”
Cooper and Qureshi spoke on August 30, 2020, during a NAM webinar that I moderated....
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