Forbes May 6, 2025
The last five years ushered in a wave of performative urgency across the healthcare industry — a tidal surge of press releases, C-suite appointments and purpose-driven campaigns declaring a new era of commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. For many who have spent their careers in the trenches of health disparities work, it felt like a long-awaited reckoning — a rare window to push real, systemic change.
But now, with the political winds shifting and legal uncertainties clouding the DEI landscape, many of the loudest voices have gone eerily quiet. Initiatives are quietly being sunset. Equity teams are being dissolved. Former champions have disappeared from panels and podiums. What once appeared to be a movement now feels more like a...







