August marks the close of the 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer. View our celebration of this momentous point in history below? Learn more about our work here: https://lnkd.in/eDezVfbq #FreedomSummer #CivilRights #HealthEquity
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The Institute for Health Equity Research, Evaluation and Policy of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers will convene communities and support the scientific infrastructure, implementation, program evaluation and training needed to identify and sustain the most effective strategies for attaining equity in health and healthcare, as defined by those with lived experience of health inequities. The League's new Institute will advance an emancipatory research approach to ensure that science benefits communities who bear the greatest human costs of long-standing health inequities.
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In honor of?National Health Center week, August 4-10, IHE invites you to check out?Our Health Stories to learn more about leaders behind the Health Center movement. ? https://lnkd.in/egbrn2fR Learn more about National Health Center Week via the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). #healthequity
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Fifty-two years ago this July, the Associated Press told the story of the Public Health Service syphilis study and launched a new era of protections and accountability for the ethical conduct of research. Epidemiologist Peter Buxtun, who passed away this year, had the courage and empathy to bring this story to light. What would science be like if we all showed up for each other with care and compassion like Dr. Buxtun? Here is his story: https://lnkd.in/gbazidgJ
Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86
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Policies that improve access to medications are essential to promote community health. Today, Health Affairs Forefront published our article that gives context for the importance of 340B policy to health centers and the ability to improve access for patients. Read the article below ? https://lnkd.in/eGK8rwT7 #healthequity #communityhealthcenters
Protecting Federally Qualified Health Centers Amid Drugstore Closures And Threats To 340B | Health Affairs Forefront
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In honor of the Institute for Health Equity Research, Evaluation & Policy (IHE)'s?one year anniversary, The Castle Group, which has collaborated with IHE over the past year, met with Dr. Cheryl Clark, executive director and senior vice president of IHE, who answered questions about our?mission, accomplishments, and plans for the future. Read the interview, as well as highlights from year one, below ? https://conta.cc/4d3BcjM #healthequity #communityhealthcenters #civilrights
IHE celebrates our 1 year anniversary
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Congratulations to Sheila Och, Chief Health Equity Officer at Lowell Community Health Center, who has been named the inaugural executive director of its new Health Justice Learning Institute! She will lead the new program to expand health care workforce capacity and advance responsive health care education and delivery. The Institute for Health Equity Research, Evaluation & Policy connected with Sheila earlier this year as part of our monthly Q&A series. In honor of Women’s History Month, Sheila joined three other women CHC leaders to share her insights on health equity leadership, CHCs’ ability to improve health outcomes, and the other pioneers who inspire her. Read more about Sheila’s new position in the Lowell Sun: https://lnkd.in/d-Ep_Cpx #healthequity
Sheila Och to lead new Health Justice Learning Institute at LCHC
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???As The Greater Boston Food Bank's study confirms, 1 in 3 Massachusetts residents continue to struggle with food insecurity. ?? The situation is especially dire for certain populations, as the report finds extensive disparities in food access among communities of color, LGBTQ+ households, seniors and college students. It also reveals that food insecurity can exacerbate chronic medical and mental health conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, anxiety and depression. ?? Recognizing that food access and nutrition are foundational to the health of our communities, such stark disparities in food access are a clear issue of health equity. Thankfully, many CHCs work to relieve this issue by offering food distribution programs to meet local needs, while some larger providers screen for food insecurity alongside routine checkups. ?? In creating responsive industry and legislative solutions that respond to the needs of our most food-insecure communities, we can advance both food security and health equity in tandem. Read the full report below: https://lnkd.in/eHgE-zhd #healthequity #foodinsecurity
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IHE Executive Director Dr. Cheryl Clark joined Representatives Mindy Domb & Marjorie Decker, Senators Jo Comerford & Julian Cyr, and the MA Black and Latino Caucus for a legislative briefing on long COVID in the Commonwealth. Long COVID is a chronic condition that affects 350,000 Massachusetts residents, an issue that is further exacerbated by deep-seated disparities in primary care access. Alongside other health care and public health leaders, Dr. Clark discussed the health equity implications of long COVID, policy priorities, and clinical care & social infrastructure to support those living with it. Watch Dr. Clark’s full remarks below: https://lnkd.in/eGzdKqbu #LongCOVID
Legislative Briefing: Long COVID & Health Equity, Part 2: Moving to Policy Solutions, 06.25.24
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In case you missed it, IHE Executive Director Dr. Cheryl Clark contributed a piece on how Freedom Summer set the foundation for desegregation and health reform, and how it continues to inform today's health equity movement. Read the full piece below via STAT: https://lnkd.in/gzGYkzQa
Did you know that the history of the Health Center Movement ties into Freedom Summer, which took place 60 years ago this month? And what is the unfinished business of equity in healthcare facing our nation? In an op-ed for STAT, Cheryl Clark -- a physician and senior vice president of the?Institute for Health Equity Research Evaluation and Policy?for the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers -- describes how key founders of the Community Health Center model, particularly Dr. Robert Smith and Dr. Aaron Shirley, were active in Freedom Summer. ??? During Freedom Summer, Clark reminds us, "volunteers from across the nation streamed into Mississippi to set up schools, register Black voters, and fight for meaningful social and political representation in the face of violent opposition from segregationist organizations and members of local and state law enforcement." ?? She recounts how Dr. Robert Smith asked physicians to join him in the South to provide first aid and medical care in case they were needed by the volunteers. These physicians did so at their own peril. "At the time, the American Medical Association took an official position that?accommodated local policies?prohibiting Black physicians from joining regional medical associations or obtaining hospital privileges. By 1960, only?50 Black physicians?were practicing in the state of Mississippi. The state’s Department of Public Health made it clear that individuals who traveled to the state to deliver first aid to civil rights activists?would be prosecuted?rather than licensed to provide services," writes Clark. ?? She concludes with a rousing call to action to continue pushing for health equity for ALL: "During the summer of 2024, there may not be field stations or grassroots groups amplifying the desperate health care crises many Americans face. As a society, Americans have often viewed the experiences of individuals suffering from?shuttered hospitals?and?unmanageable health care costs?as private indignities that are just a part of life that people must navigate alone. Today’s injustices in health care stem from society’s failure to view inequities in health care delivery as this era’s pressing civil rights issue. As the country commemorates the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer, Americans must continue challenging today’s 'normal' practices that prohibit people from accessing affordable, trustworthy, and compassionate care." Read the full op-ed: https://lnkd.in/gzGYkzQa #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #ValueCHCs #HealthCenters
It's been 60 years since Freedom Summer, yet the fight for affordable, compassionate, and equitable health care is still going on
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On?Thursday, June 20th, join?IHE?for?our?virtual?open house,?a celebration of Freedom Summer's 60th anniversary and the unveiling of our first-ever Community Hero awardees! What?to expect: ????Remarks by Civil Rights leader?Reena Evers-Everette?of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute?with an introduction by Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, Undersecretary for Health?in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services. ????Honoring Community Hero?awardees:?Felipe Kalatauma Rosario?and Carlos Santiago?of the Mandela Yoga Project Inc. ???Networking: Connect with others after the event and learn ways to support the health equity mission of health centers. ???Happening?June 20th from 5:30 - 6:30 PM,?with a networking session until 7:00 PM. Register below: https://lnkd.in/ePYhFd6A
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