Health Equity

National Academy of Sciences

2012 - $25,000

The problem of worse health outcomes for members of racial and ethnic populations is well documented by scientific data. Yet after 30 years of both public and private efforts to reduce the disparity between vulnerable populations and whites, health disparities stubbornly persist.

This grant will support the planning and implementation of an Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities, which convenes health sector stakeholders and experts, in Connecticut.

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