Fortune May 21, 2024
Lindsey Leake

The coronavirus pandemic didn’t give rise to health inequities in the U.S. Rather, it revealed and exacerbated them.

That was the consensus of a panel at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference in Dana Point, Calif., on Monday, just over a year after the federal COVID-19 public health emergency ended.

“It exposed the deep fissures within our health care system,” said Dr. Uché Blackstock, founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity. “Many of us knew what those fissures were, but I think to a more general audience, it exposed them in a way that [they] had never been exposed before.”

Jayasree Iyer, PhD, CEO of the Access to Medicine Foundation, echoed, “Health equity has been a chronic issue for time immemorial.”

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Topics: Conferences / Podcast, Equity/SDOH, Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Trends
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