Chief Healthcare Executive January 6, 2025
Deborah Phillips, executive director of the Black Directors Health Equity Agenda, talks about diversity in improving care and why she’s not hung up on labels in the face of DEI critics.
The Black Directors Health Equity Agenda promotes diversity as a way to solve lasting problems in healthcare.
Black Americans are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer at later stages and are more likely to die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Black women are more likely to die of maternal causes than other women, federal statistics show.
Deborah Phillips, executive director of the Black Directors Health Equity Agenda, says hospitals and health systems must work on closing those disparities. She tells Chief Healthcare Executive® that...