Health Equity

Renaisa S. Anthony, MD. Deputy Director of the Center for Reducing Health Disparities at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha). Dr. Anthony is a practicing physician and public health practitioner in addition to her role as the deputy director of…

Nadia Nguyen Adams. COO of the Indiana University Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science (Indianapolis). Ms. Adams aims to support high-quality, patient-centered and cost-effective care solutions as COO of the IU Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Sciences. She partners…

Desha Dickson. Director of Community Health and Engagement at Reading Health System (West Reading, Pa.). As director of community health and engagement, Ms. Dickinson was instrumental in launching Reading Health System’s Employee Engagement Initiative in 2012. The initiative allows employees to…

Maria Portela Martinez, MD. Chief of Medical Training and Geriatrics Branch of the Health Resources Services Administration (Rockville, Md.). A family physician by training, Dr. Martinez’s vision for an evolution in primary care inspired her current role as chief of the…

Farzana Rashid Hossain, MD. Gastroenterologist at Penn Medicine (Philadelphia). A gastroenterologist by training, Dr. Hossain is building a name for herself as a female leader in her community. In August 2016, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney appointed her to the first Philadelphia…

In 2015, 95 percent of the nation's children were insured, according to a Kids Count annual survey released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Americans who rate their own health as "poor" are more than twice as likely to buy health plans from the ACA exchanges than those who self-rate their health as "excellent," according to a recent Gallup poll.

Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.). The organization that would become Kaiser Permanente began during the Great Depression at a 12-bed hospital in California that officially opened to the public in 1945. The system has grown since then and now consists of…

HealthPartners (Bloomington, Minn.). Established in 1957, HealthPartners is now a seven-hospital system that also includes a medical and dental health plan. The integrated system also boasts a multispecialty group practice of more than 1,700 physicians treating more than 1.2 million…

Chicago-based Blue Cross Blue Shield Association penned a message to members outlining its wishes for the GOP's health reform proposal.