How the White House COVID-19 health equity director plans to tackle health disparities

Becker's Healthcare March 2, 2021
Hannah Mitchell

The Biden administration’s COVID-19 health equity director, Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, is determined to better understand underlying factors that cause health disparities for people in minority communities, she told NBC.” We have a complicated intersectional web that we are now coming to understand better,” Dr. Nunez-Smith said. “Structural racism is real.”

Her approach to addressing disparities is two-pronged:

1. She questions why gaps in equity are so predictable.

“Why weren’t my colleagues able to predict the disparate impacts that we now see in the pandemic?” she asked.

2. She intends to...

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