ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½

Health Equity Headlines

 Explore the latest public health research and insights about health equity.

In his first months on the job, Dr. Gawande traveled to Nigeria where USAID is working with local partners to accelerate COVID vaccination rates and ensure distribution of medications for neglected tropical diseases, as well as partnering with Gavi on routine childhood immunizations.

Global health, to Atul Gawande, is all about ensuring that everyone everywhere gets the care they need—and strong health systems are a key to the mission. The renowned surgery professor and author—and now USAID’s assistant administrator for Global Health—sat down for a fireside chat with  Dean Ellen J. MacKenzie on April 29 to talk through lessons from the pandemic, his goals, and his path to public health.  
Health Equity
International Health
Global Health NOW

Public health can respond to the challenges of the moment and tackle fundamental barriers to health.

COVID-19
Health Equity
Health Policy
Public Health Magazine
A photograph of a statue holding scales and a sword, overlaid by a filter of binary numbers.

Public health researchers are working to uncover and correct unfairness in AI.

Data
Health Equity
Hearing Loss
Public Health Magazine
An illustration of two scientists. One is sitting at a desk looking into a microscope. The other is walking away with their arms full of lab equipment.

A child of colonialism, global health began with the export of Western concepts of health and medical care—and the protection of colonizers from local diseases. Here’s how committed insurgents in the field are overturning those lingering perspectives.

Health Equity
International Health
Public Health Magazine

Health Equity Faculty Experts

 Looking for prominent public health experts in the field of health equity? They’re here at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Keshia Pollack Porter

Keshia Pollack Porter

Professor
Health Policy and Management

Keshia Pollack Porter, PhD ’06, MPH, uses research to advance policies that promote health equity, especially where people live, work, play, and travel.

Lisa Cooper

Lisa A. Cooper

Professor
Health, Behavior and Society

Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH '93, works to advance health equity with scholarship on racial disparities in patient-physician communication and community-informed interventions.

Tanjala Purnell

Tanjala S. Purnell

Associate Professor
Epidemiology

Tanjala S. Purnell, PhD '12, MPH, uses epidemiology and health services research to advance equity in transplantation and related conditions, including kidney diseases, hypertension, and diabetes.

Darrell Gaskin

Darrell J. Gaskin

Professor
Health Policy and Management

Darrell Gaskin, PhD '95, MS, is a health economist who advances community, neighborhood, and market-level policies and programs that reduce health disparities.

Related Topics
Data
Environment
Health Policy
Noncommunicable Diseases
Child and Adolescent Health