Center for Health Justice Submits Environmental Justice Comments to the White House and NIH
The AAMC Center for Health Justice submitted comments to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on Dec. 12, 2023, and to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Dec. 15 in response to two separate requests for information on advancing environmental justice across the federal government.
The letters, informed by the expertise of health equity researchers, clinicians, and their multisector and community partners in AAMC CHARGE, recommended:
- Creating bidirectional channels for community engagement and trust building
- Establishing common language for discussing environmental justice
- Developing processes for sharing environmental justice research and information across federal agencies
- Including people with disabilities in NIH policies, programs, and strategic plans
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Polling Snapshot: Artificial Intelligence
What do U.S. adults think about the growing use of AI in their health and daily lives? Learn more about the results of our August 2023 poll of over 2,000 U.S. adults. The responsible use of AI and its subfields like NLP can promote transparency and trust to tackle health care challenges, like adverse maternal health outcomes
Legal Help as a Prescription for Health
Mold infestations. Illegal firings. Denial of public benefits. Often, there’s little doctors can do to address social drivers of health. Medical-legal partnerships embed lawyers on the health care team to help. Can they expand enough to meet the need?
Building Healthy Communities Requires Trustworthiness
A new article published in Health Progress by Philip Alberti, PhD, AAMC senior director of health equity research and policy and founding director of the AAMC Center for Health Justice, explores the impact of community engagement on trustworthiness and health. “Instead of ‘educating’ the community, perhaps medical, public health and government institutions could try ‘partnering’ with them, because the necessary education flows both ways,” Alberti writes.
How History Has Shaped Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
This timeline from the Kaiser Family Foundation outlines U.S policies and historical events from the early 19th century to the present day that have influenced and shaped the health inequities that we see today.