Health Affairs' Health Equity Project Names Advisory Board

Health Affairs' Health Equity Project has selected its advisory board to help guide efforts to address racism and promote equity in scholarly publishing.

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Aug 18, 2021, 10:00 ET

BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Health Affairs' Health Equity Project has selected its advisory board. Its members are:

  • Donald Warne, MD, MPH | University of North Dakota
  • Spero M. Manson, PhD | Colorado School of Public Health
  • Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD | Morehouse School of Medicine
  • Jose F. Figueroa, MD, MPH | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH | American Medical Association
  • Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, PhD, MPA-URP | Brandeis University
  • Paula Braveman, MD, MPH | University of California San Francisco
  • Michelle Ko, MD, PhD | University of California Davis
  • Ernest Moy, MD, MPH | Veterans Health Administration
  • Darrell J. Gaskin, PhD, MS | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

We are honored to have such a distinguished group help guide our efforts to address racism and promote equity at Health Affairs and in scholarly publishing more broadly, " said Health Affairs Editor-In-Chief Alan Weil.

The purpose of the Project is to address racism and promote equity in scholarly publishing. Health Affairs will accomplish this with programming to value and increase the quality and quantity of studies authored by members of racial and ethnic groups previously underrepresented in our journal.

These ideas were detailed by Alan Weil in a Health Affairs Blog published January 26. To implement the program, Vabren Watts, PhD, was appointed as Health Affairs' equity project director. Watts published a companion blog the same day as Weil's.

Health Affairs' health equity project is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Colorado Health Foundation. Updates to the project and to Health Affairs' health equity content can be found on its health equity webpage.

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