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Institutional Investors Must Help Close the Race and Gender Gaps in Venture Capital, Ilene H. Lang, Reggie Van Lee, Harvard Business Review, 2020

Brief Description: Research repeatedly demonstrates that companies with diverse senior leadership outperform all-white, all-male counterparts, leading to better financial performance, increased innovation, and more startup success. This article proposed holding... read more →

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A Historical Overview of Health Disparities and the Potential of eHealth Solutions, M. Chris Gibbons, JMIR, 2005

Brief Description: This article discusses health disparities in the US and Europe, including how the internet plays a role in health outcomes. It proposes potential benefits of eHealth and digital... read more →

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Effective Change Requires Proximate Leaders, Angela Jackson, John Kania, Tulaine Montgomery, Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2020

Brief Description: Proximate leadership — or leaders who have a meaningful relationship with communities who are systemically marginalized — requires leaders who are a part of or being directly guided... read more →

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Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations, Obermeyer Z, Powers B, Vogeli C, Mullainathan S. Science, 2019

Brief Description: Commercial algorithms are often used in guiding health decisions. However, one widely used algorithm contains significant racial bias, drastically reducing the number of Black patients identified for extra... read more →

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The Digital Divide in Healthcare: It’s Not Just Access, Lisa Fitzpatrick, Neal Sikka, Karin Underwood, HIMSS, 2021

Brief Description: Access to technology and the internet is a known problem in healthcare. This article suggests shifting the focus away from what communities lack — and toward innovating for... read more →

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Designing consumer health IT to enhance usability among different racial and ethnic groups within the United States, Rupa S. Valdez, M. Chris Gibbons, Elliot R. Siegel, Rita Kukafka, Patricia Flatley Brennan, Health and Technology, 2012

Brief Description: The healthcare delivery system in the US has repeatedly failed to respond to differences in culture. This article proposes the Culturally-Informed Designed Framework as a guide for designers... read more →

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Culture, Race, and Health: Implications for Racial Inequities and Population Health, Courtney D. Cogburn, The Milbank Quarterly, 2019

Brief Description: Racism is a known cause of health inequity, and policy solutions must address this cause instead of just targeting mechanisms. This report highlights how policies directed toward racial... read more →

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Building toward equity: A working model for digital health, RockHealth.org, 2021

Brief Description: The US healthcare system is broken — particularly for communities of color, low-income populations, and other historically marginalized communities. The intersection of health and technology access disparities may... read more →

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An algorithmic approach to unexplained pain disparities in underserved populations, Ziad Obermeyer et al, Nature Medicine, 2021

Brief Description: Pain is a widespread phenomenon in society, but underserved populations experience more of it. This article highlights how algorithmic severity measures capture racial, socioeconomic, and educational disparities in... read more →

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