Health Equity

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Reexamining the role of race in kidney health

Sarah Y. Kim

National Kidney Month this year comes as health systems are adjusting the way they measured kidney function for decades.

Since the COVID pandemic began, Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services has reached 21 million people worldwide via on-the-ground efforts, like this sanitation and hygiene field project at the Pwalugu Market in Ghana, West Africa, to slow the spread of COVID-19 and bolster the capacity of local health responders.

Programs

Helping the world's poor battle COVID: Vax equity & relief efforts

Tom Hall

US & private relief agencies like Catholic Relief Services are closing the COVID-Vax gap for the world's poorest.

Dr. Lisa Cooper is a Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins and the founding director of its Center for Health Equity (JHU)

Programs

Health Inequity Is Everybody's Business

Sheilah Kast

Head of Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Dr. Lisa Cooper has tried to understand and explain the ways race and the stress of discrimination shape health care and health outcomes. She’s distilled her work and ideas into a book "Why Are Health Disparities Everyone’s Problem?"