
Fernando De Maio
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Professor of Sociology @DePaulU. VP of Research and Data Use, Center for Health Equity @AmerMedicalAssn | views are my own
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As leaders of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within academic, medical, and corporate institutions strive to improve equity and health for all, they are facing attacks from all sides. Read the new Perspective by Dr. Aletha Maybank: nej.md/4crK2Iz




Today in The Lancet: The US health industry is the largest sector in the world's largest economy, and the medical profession leverages massive political power through it. Given this, our silence on US-enabled genocide in Gaza is utterly indefensible. 1/ thelancet.com/journals/lance…



With Dr. Mary Bassett today for The Nation: “We are now again at a defining historical moment as individuals, as a US medical profession, and as a society writ large. There is no ethical possibility of neutrality. We must make a choice…” thenation.com/article/societ…

Palestinian children should wake up feeling excited to go to school and play with their friends. Instead, for those murdered in Rafah, their last moments on this earth were filled with unimaginable fear as bombs rained down on their tents. What a monstrous failure of humanity.



New publication from NASEM Health! Speakers at a June 2023 workshop explored the meaning, design, use, and evaluation of #HealthEquity metrics in health care, communities, and other settings. Read here: ow.ly/nwN950SU52r A pleasure to take part in this event.

I’ve largely kept the “ugly side” of removing #race from #kidney #algorithms to myself and a few others. Major kudos to Usha Lee McFarling for telling the most accurate account of the process that I’ve seen to date. Read more of the fantastic series here >> trib.al/4KkS0nx

The official death toll in Gaza is over 45,000, but British Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitta says there is strong evidence "the number is closer to 300,000." "This is literally and mathematically a genocidal project," he says.

