Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Care
- Executive Education
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Examine the roots of racial inequities in health care and learn to drive systemic change through data, strategy, and leadership. Create actionable plans to advance equity and improve care outcomes.
- Online; Instructor-Paced
This course is offered online with a schedule, and participants progress through the materials under the guidance of an instructor.
$950
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Certificate
4-5 Hours/Week, 5 Weeks
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Overview
What is inequality in health care? What does social justice in health care look like? Does your organization address racial equity and access to care? Is diversity, bias, and inclusion a common conversation or evaluation to improve delivery? How do you address these topics with your leadership and board members?
Racial disparity in the United States health care industry isn’t a new topic; for decades researchers have focused on quality of care, access, and safety of people of color versus their white counterparts. While in recent years quality and access has improved in the U.S. thanks to initiatives like the Affordable Care Act, there is still a gap in the quality of care different groups receive. It’s vital to continue closing the biases and disparities in health care through education, communication, and action.
In Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Care, you will not only examine the disparities that exist when serving a diverse population, but also approach each inequity head-on to learn more about the causes and how to eliminate these issues. By focusing on data collection and performance measurements unique to your organization, you will identify how core issues in care quality of ethnic and racial minority groups, which are often multifactorial in nature, contribute to poorer health outcomes, lead to higher costs, and exemplify low-value health care.
Offered in conjunction with the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), this health equity course will use real-world examples, case studies, and insights from leaders in the field to help you understand the history of racism in health care and digest the latest in understanding racial disparities in health care—allowing you to create strategic approaches that you can apply to your organization. Beyond dei training for health care professions, this course will help ou will learn how to harness and analyze data, visualize and communicate the results, and use feedback from stakeholders to begin closing the gap.
Remove racial biases and barriers. Improve equality in health care.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the causes of systemic racism in health care that are grounded in historical instances of segregation to better understand why health equity is important.
- Use the Kotter method to identify organizational gaps and needs, create a vision for change, and implement an executable strategy to close disparities.
- Learn how to collect and analyze data unique to underserved populations to inform organizational change.
- Gain greater knowledge regarding how continued inequality affects overall quality and cost of care.
- Create a vision to obtain stakeholder buy-in and a strategic framework to implement solutions leading to high-value equitable health care.
Faculty
Harvard Medical School Continuing Education attracts the best and brightest faculty from all around the world. As a student in this course, you’ll have access to outstanding course directors and faculty.
Joseph R. Betancourt, MD, MPH
Course Director
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Vice President and Chief Fquity and Inclusion Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital
- The Founder, Senior Advisor, and Faculty of the Disparities Solutions Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Aswita Tan-McGrory, MBA, MSPH
Course Director
- Director of the Disparities Solutions Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Director of Equity in Care Implementation, Massachusetts General Hospital