Health Equity Compact tackling big challenges

JUAN FERNANDO LOPERA doesn’t minimize the immense challenges facing the Health Equity Compact, a group of 50 Black and Latinx Massachusetts health care leaders who joined together last year to address inequities in health care.

“We talked a lot about are we trying to boil the ocean and the reality is, yes, we need to boil the ocean in order to address the deeply rooted systemic disparities in health care,” said Lopera, the chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer at Beth Israel Lahey Health.

Boiling the ocean, of course, is an impossible task, but the compact is moving ahead. The group announced its formation last year, filed legislation this year,...