Making health equity sustainable: Helping patients and the bottom line

For Ankoor Shah, health equity is deeply personal.

Shah, a principal director and health equity lead at Accenture, worked for years as a practicing physician in southeast Washington, D.C., where disparities in outcomes are much different than the more affluent neighborhoods in the nation’s capital.

“I had a child who unfortunately passed away from asthma,” he says. “And it haunts me to this day because I think about, if that child had that exact same diagnosis, but grew up in … Georgetown, would probably be alive today.”

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