How Can Healthcare System Achieve Health Equity?

Cardiology expert: Dig down to the root causes and make the changes at the community level - now

It's a fact. Health disparities exist across all levels of the healthcare system. Kamal Henderson, MD, assistant professor, Division of Cardiology, takes a pragmatic approach to his work in the clinic and his research. He's guided by a single question:

How do we take what we think we should be doing and bring it down to the communities that actually need it?

Henderson recently spoke at a University of Colorado School of Medicine cardiology grand rounds about the foundational issues he sees in his practice and research related to disparities in cardiovascular health. He also spoke frankly about the structural racism that impacts people of color.

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