Health Equity

Diversity often is defined as increasing representation of people from all backgrounds in a particular field, but it’s also more than varying the makeup of an organization, it’s supporting diversity of thought, says Keith Melancon.
SMHS received a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to develop an educational pipeline program.
After receiving scholarship support from GW, Dr. Essel’s giving back through his work in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C. and investing in students who will become physicians helping others.
To improve health equity and health care access and to bring research and technology to Wards 7 and 8 in Washington, D.C., GW Hospital signed a letter of intent to oversee the opening of a new hospital and health complex in Southeast D.C.
The GW Health Workforce Institute announced that its Leaders for Health Equity Fellowship program has officially joined the global community of Atlantic Fellows. The program will now be known as the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity.
A joint venture between the George Washington University and Unity Health Care, sponsored by CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, brings specialty care to underserved areas.
The GW Rodham Institute now serves as the home of the Maryland Regional Direct Services Collaborative. This new partnership greatly expands and strengthens its ability toward assuring the availability of well-trained direct services workforce throughout Washington, D.C., and Maryland. 
Rising fourth-year medical student Steven Langerman was selected for the Medical Research Scholars Program at the National Institutes of Health. 
GW is expanding its clinical enterprise with a recent contract awarded to the GW Medical Faculty Associates (MFA) by United Medical Center (UMC). The MFA is providing professionals to staff UMC’s adult emergency services, and, in July, will be in charge of its hospitalist services.
Dayna Bowen Matthew discussed the impact of implicit racial and ethnic bias on health equity at the second annual Martin Luther King Jr. lecture.