Healing Arc

01/04/2023

Dr. Michelle Morse spoke with New York Amsterdam News for a Q&A about the status of the COVID-19 pandemic, preparation for the holidays and long COVID

We have more tools than ever to prevent [deaths and hospitalizations] from happening, so the updated COVID boosters and the bivalent boosters are essential for the prevention of severe disease that can lead to hospitalization and death.

12/24/2022

In the latest Healing ARC Newsletter, Dr. Michelle Morse speaks about her journey as a health advocate and quest to jettison racism from medicine and patient care in America https://bit.ly/3V4z8yo

12/23/2022

Racism in medicine creates environments where patients of color too often do not receive the best medical care and the patients, and their families, suffer because of it

BOSTON, MA – Benjamin Perkins recalls his father taking a stress test and collapsing on a treadmill in Los Angeles in 1995. His dad, also Benjamin, had suffered symptoms pointing to heart trouble, but doctors repeatedly insisted everything was fine. Three days after the heart attack on the treadmi...

12/23/2022

A new study in JAMA Network Open concluded that providing reparations to Black communities would help close the wealth gap and, in turn, reduce the health and longevity gaps that currently exists https://bit.ly/3HTeVc5

12/14/2022

The new Healing ARC Newsletter is here‼️ Find out how wealth disparities have a large impact of health inequalities and take a look at our in-depth interview with NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Michelle Morse https://bit.ly/3j4PPMF

12/10/2022

Check out the new This Week podcast, where Health Affairs Jessica Bylander and Rob Lott discuss how to tackle racial biases in health care algorithms bit.ly/3XMXNdn

12/09/2022

The Lancet sat with Dr. Michelle Morse to discuss her role with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and her work to reduce racial inequities in areas where discriminatory practices adversely affect patient care.

Morse strongly believes approaches to tackle health inequities should “consider the long history of racism in our society, and acknowledge the racialised pattern of health outcomes, and then act in a way that directly addresses those racial patterns and impacts, so that the action we take is specifically for groups who have experienced historical marginalisation and disadvantage.”

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12/02/2022

Dr. Monica Wang of the Boston University School of Public Health Center for Antiracist Research broke down racial health disparities and shared the results from a U.C. Berkeley study linking racist communities to a higher risk of heart disease and the possible reasons for its findings. Find out more about how health inequity affects black and brown communities and holds ramifications for society as a whole.

Racist communities are unhealthy communities. A recent study links higher racial bias in a community with more deaths from heart disease, not only in groups ...

11/16/2022

Dr. Manisha Sharma is a member of the Healing ARC Advisory Committee and lectures widely on health equity. Manisha is committed to being a change-maker in a field immersed with structural racism. She sat with the Healing ARC Campaign for an interview on her upbringing, her experiences and how to eliminate racism from patient care https://bit.ly/3WU0R6W

11/15/2022

President & CEO of the Institute for Healthcare, Kedar Mate explains how to combat racist structures in medicine after the COVID-19 pandemic https://bit.ly/3fZ6AI8

Racial disparities in healthcare defined the COVID-19 pandemic, but they existed long before the virus. Dr. Kedar Mate, president and CEO of the Institute fo...

11/14/2022

“We are reaching out to community members so we can leverage their input and insights in the hospital’s decision making. There are too many times when attempts to address health disparities are designed at the top of the bureaucracy and ignore community views and opinions. Historically, instead of going to harmed populations and including their thinking in the remedy, they are completely cut out of the picture.”

Cass Georges plays an instrumental role for the Healing ARC by coordinating community engagement and organizing Wisdom Councils. Cass and the Healing ARC are defining what authentic community engagement can be.

Learn more about her work here https://bit.ly/3TJVnct

Healing ARC Newsletter Cass Georges Finds Her Way Coordinating Community-Hospital Engagement Nov 2, 2022 BOSTON, MA – At Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, Cassandra “Cass” Georges, a 26-year-old UMass Amherst graduate, plays an instrumental role in implementing a groundbreaking c...

11/14/2022

Don’t miss the Healing ARC’s latest newsletter with articles about how the Healing ARC is positively impacting communities that healthcare has overlooked until now https://bit.ly/3TJVnct

Healing ARC Newsletter Cass Georges Finds Her Way Coordinating Community-Hospital Engagement Nov 2, 2022 BOSTON, MA – At Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, Cassandra “Cass” Georges, a 26-year-old UMass Amherst graduate, plays an instrumental role in implementing a groundbreaking c...