AMA Prioritizing Equity

AMA Prioritizing Equity

Prioritizing Equity illuminates how determinants of health uniquely impact marginalized communities, public health and health equity, with an eye on both short-term and long-term implications. Prioritizing Equity is produced by The AMA Center for Health Equity and hosted by AMA Chief Health Equity Officer & Senior Vice President, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH. Listeners can earn CME while gaining valuable lessons in racial justice and health equity from leading voices in medicine and health care.

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March 19, 2025 26 mins

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This episode will inform physicians and medical trainees about the critical intersection of incarceration, voter rights, and health outcome...

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In this week's edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, we will discuss the AMA’s

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    In this episode of our Prioritizing Equity series(Released on July 22nd, 2024), we are joined by Read more

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    June 24, 2024 42 mins

    In this week’s episode of our Prioritizing Equity series, we are joined by physicians and scholarly leaders who are advocating for equitable climate action to remedy the disproportionate b...

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    In this episode of the Prioritizing Equity series (Released on May 21st, 2024), panelists will share the importance of teaching, implementing Read more

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    This week's episode of Prioritizing Equity series brings together the physicians featured in "Our Legacy in Practice: A Physician's Story” videos. Today, p Read more

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    This edition of the Prioritizing Equity series follows recent policy adopted at the AMA’s House of Delegates meeting in June 2022 as panelists will discuss gender equity in medicine and how COVID-19 has exacerbated experiences for people identifying as women. The episode will also explore both historical and present inequities in medical edu...

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    This week's edition of the Prioritizing Equity series, we explore the Anchor Strategy — a place-based approach to building community health and wealth by means of local hiring, investing, Read more

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    In this edition of the Prioritizing Equity series, we explore the unique health care and social needs of patients experiencing houselessness and discuss the importance of equitable, holistic, cost effective, evidence-based discharge planning.

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    Firearm violence is a public health crisis. In this week's Prioritizing Equity panel, we explore the work of physicians in health systems and beyond in the realms of public health, public safety, and firearm violence prevention.

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    • Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, FACEP, Incoming Dean of Yale School of Public Health – Twitter: @meganranney

    • Eric Reinhart, MD, PGY2 psychiatry resident at No...

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    In this edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, join medical student organizers and policy advocates as they discuss increasing access to care in native communities and improving care within the Indian Health Services through health policy.

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    • Tamee Livermont [Tam/Me - Liv/er/Mont]...
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    Learn more about the AMA Peer Network: https://ama-assn.org/peer-network

    In this week's edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, Vice President at the AMA Center for Health Equity speaks with participants from the Peer Network for Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety program on their strategies to start operationalizing equity into their quality and safety operations.

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    • Aderonke Akin...
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    Reproductive health care is a human right. Learn how this connects to health equity and explore the impacts of the overturn of Roe v. Wade with a panel of experts.

    Panel: 

    • Lawrence Gostin, JD—Professor, Global Health Law at Georgetown University and Director, WHO Center on Global Health Law
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    Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity.

    Explore the myth of meritocracy, its presence in health care and how physicians can push past it to advance health equity. Daniel Markovits, JD, Melody S. Goodman, PhD, Tomás Diaz, MD and moderator Fernando De Maio, PhD discuss in this Prioritizing Equity panel.

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    • Daniel Markovits, JD—Guido Calabresi Professor of Law and Founding Director, Center for t...
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    February 14, 2022 48 mins

    Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity.

    This week's edition of our Prioritizing Equity series focuses on the power of narratives and language in health care. It explores how dominant narratives perpetuate harm, and offers examples of how these narratives can be challenged and disrupted, moving towards equity-focused and person-first alternatives.

    Read the guide: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/a...

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    January 24, 2022 35 mins

    The January 24, 2022 edition of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series focuses on redistributive justice and its impact on the health of patients and communities that have been socially and economically marginalized and minoritized.

    Panel:

    • Ivelyse Andino—Founder and CEO of Radical Health
    • William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr., PhD—Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Sa...
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    Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity.

    In this October 4, 2021, Prioritizing Equity discussion, AMA Chief Health Equity Officer, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, and leaders across a continuum of disciplines discuss critical race theory and its applications to the field of health equity.

    Panel:

    • Dennis C. Chin—Vice president of Narrative, Arts, and Culture, Race Forward
    • Malika Sharma, MD, MEd—Division of...
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