BLACK LIVES MATTER BRINGS HEALTH INEQUITY TO FOREFRONT OF PUBLIC-HEALTH DIALOGUE

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By Larry Dobrow, MM&M

Excerpted from MM&M:

The Black Lives Matter protests of the summer of 2020 were fueled by outrage over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and numerous other people at the hands of police officers. Yet, amid their calls for justice, accountability and more stringent police oversight, the protesters shone a light on a problem that has long festered in Black and other minority communities: A stunning and shameful degree of health inequity.

Read perspectives in MM&M from across the healthcare industry including commentary from Razorfish Health's Ayanna Telfort, MBA and Funmi Olosunde; Heartbeat's Michelle Edwards and Tiffany Marsh; and our Chief Patient Officer, Susan Manber.