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When we tell future generations about 2020, how will we remember it? Will we remember it as a “rough year,” a year of death and injustice? Or as the year that prompted the renewal of a revolution to move our ideals of health equity for all forward? We, as healthcare providers and institutions, have the power and privilege to dismantle systemic racism in medicine and society and to have a meaningful impact on the well-being of the communities we serve, if we all commit to continuously work toward

First-year medical student Sean Sweat "didn't want to tiptoe around" issues of race when she sat down with 11 of her classmates to write a new version of the medical profession's venerable Hippocratic oath. "We start our medical journey amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and a national civil rights movement reinvigorated by the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery," begins the alternate version of the oath, rewritten for the class of 2024 at the University of Pittsburgh...

Please join us on June 28 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation with best-selling author Bruce Perry. Ingrid Cockhren , CEO of PACEs Connection; Mathew Portell , PACEs Connections’ director of communities, and Perry, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, will engage in a conversation concerning historical trauma and Perry’s best-selling book " What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing, " which he co-authored with Oprah Winfrey. Please share this blog...

Note: PACEs Connection is in dire financial straits. We are asking for support, from you, our 57,586 members, to help cover the loss of foundation funding that was promised and did not come through. Pay and hours have been cut for our staff—most of us will be laid off for the month of December. Another grant will pick up in January, but we will still be underfunded. Since sounding the alarm this summer, we’ve raised about $26,000 . Thankfully, about 25% of new donors are making monthly...

Successful health equity strategies must be inclusive, and focus on all marginalized and minoritized persons and their communities. Any lesser view will continue to yield a faulty health equity equation.

Well, said! I hope this post and your concerns gain a wide audience among PACES membership. The basic problem is access to needed and beneficial medical and mental health services for all Americans - that would be an equitable health system. SDOH (social determinants of health), CDOH (commercial) and PDOH (political - even within the analysis by Dawes from the Satcher Institute) are all convenient euphemisms allowing everyone to politely, clinically, and academically avoid dealing with the...