Less Talk, More Action: Accelerating Innovative Strategies to Eliminate Health Disparities

Dr. Thomas highlighted the activities of the Maryland Center for Health Equity, a designated Research Center of Excellence Minority Health Disparities, by the NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Disparities. The Center identifies the social context of health disparities in order to better address them. Breaking the poverty cycle, improving access to quality health care, fixing environmental hazards in homes and neighborhoods, and implementing effective programming in preventative medicine tailored to the specific needs of the community, were all called out as necessary steps outside the ‘biomedical model.’