To Advance Health Equity, Use the Data—Don’t Just Collect Them, Officials Say

AJMC June 23, 2021
Allison Inserro

At a session of AHIP 2021 Institute and Expo Online, the head of North Carolina’s health and human services department and a health equity policy advisor in the Biden administration discussed how collecting and using data to achieve health equity is ultimately a policy decision.

At nearly every conference or meeting over the past year there is a session on health equity, but how does this goal become reality? For that, you need data, and advancing data initiatives and then acting on that information is a policy decision, according to speakers at a session at AHIP 2021 Institute and Expo Online.

“We know the problem is there,” said Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health...

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