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Health Equity Headlines

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

A child looks uncertain as he receives a polio vaccine at a health care center in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, on April 3, 2023. Aditya Aji/AFP via Getty

The Gates Foundation’s Christopher J. Elias shares 4 priority areas that the Foundation is  focusing on to drive progress on immunization. 

Global Health NOW
Staff care for a pregnant patient in the Trocaire Doolow Hospital in Doolow, Somalia, October 15,2022. Photo by Giles Clarke/UNOCHA/Getty.

Throughout the world, gender inequities in health are readily apparent, preventing women from receiving the health care they need, in a timely manner, and delivered in a way that responds to their unique needs and expectations, thus demanding a focus on women-centered solutions.

Global Health NOW

Indigenous health scholar Donald Warne lifts up the next generation of researchers to deliver future solutions.

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
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
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
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
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.