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Dr. Ted Long, the Executive Director of the #NYCTestandTrace Corps, says the new #NYCPublicHealthCorps will prioritize health equity in communities hardest hit by the #COVID19 pandemic. Learn more: bit.ly/2YeFNyx

Great news! 🎊🎉 Today we opened our very own Pride Health Center which will provide access to care for our #LGBTQ community, who often face barriers when trying to access healthcare. Learn more about the first Pride Health Center in the Bronx: bit.ly/2YQL6EY

When I’m quiet for awhile you KNOW I’ve been writing! Check out my piece on the crisis of Black youth suicide in Psychiatric Times. Shout out to The OpEd Project and Neil J. Young for training my op-Ed writing muscle! 🤙🏽psychiatrictimes.com/view/the-missi…

Extremely insightful article by my colleague Jenny Tsai, MD, M.Ed that warns of the inadequacy of racial biology, its misguided and shameful past, and how its framework, if not appropriately critiqued, harms us all. Our past decisions still haunt us today! ajkd.org/article/S0272-…

The racial wealth gap in our country draws its root to the Reconstruction period following the Civil War... To say the US government didn't have a role in creating this wealth inequity implies you don't understand our country's tortuous history. aeon.co/ideas/land-and…

I'm hiring! Come join my expanding NYC Health + Hospitals ExpressCare team. Looking for clinicians who are driven to address health equity gaps by bringing care into the homes of NYers. linkedin.com/pulse/virtual-… via LinkedIn

Many thanks to Delores Williams of People Get Ready, Dr. Margai Luba, Dr. Elana Cook, Dr. Kristin Reese, & Dr. Adam Berkwitt of Yale Pediatrics, & Monica Monk-Flake of Monk Youth, Jazz & STEAM Collective Inc. for a wonderful program! There was even a special drop off from Santa!

Physicians have been taught that Black patients w/hypertension should be treated with a narrower range of medication options than all other racial groups. This approach has no apparent patient benefit, according to a UC San Francisco FCM study in jabfm.org/content/35/1/26 #healthequity

New Health Affairs study shows Black patients had *2.5 times* higher odds of negative descriptors (eg "non-adherent,” "agitated”) in EHRs even after SES/risk adjustment. Concerning for racial bias/racist thinking by docs/RNs Led by M.Sun @DrMonicaPeek E.Tung, T.Oliwa The University of Chicago

Get it my brother! Joel Bervell

Let's take a moment to remember the good times.

It's fascinating watching the government use the same playbook from 40 years ago. Every single excuse Milton Friedman said they'd use is word-for-word what's being said today. youtube.com/watch?v=B_nGEj…

Effective 1/2023, Joint Commission has new & revised requirements to reduce healthcare disparities. Accreditation standards are an important lever to change healthcare delivery. Full report can be downloaded from the link below. A short 🧵: jointcommission.org/standards/r3-r…

Have you ever had to donate blood or receive a blood transfusion? If so, you have this Black surgeon to thank. Let’s talk about Dr. Charles Drew, the “father of blood bankingL whose work has literally saved millions of lives. #wokeblackhistory ##blackhistorymonth

In medicine, there’s a prenatal blood test called an “alpha-fetoprotein test” that is recommended to every pregnant person; but it includes a race adjustment. Let’s talk about it.

"What you want to have is a system in which for every dollar collected in premiums, $1 is spent in care of patients." Don Berwick talks about Medicare’s future at the #STATSummit