Abstract
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Allison S. Bryant, Julia A. Healey, Sarah Wilkie, Carla Carten, Thomas D. Sequist, and Elsie M. Taveras, “A Health System Framework for Addressing Structural Racism: Mass General Brigham’s United Against Racism Initiative,” Health Equity 7, no. 1 (2023): 533–542, https://doi.org/10.1089/heq.2023.0077.
Abstract
The legacy of racism and structural inequality has taken a heavy toll on the health care system and the health outcomes of patients and members of community catchment areas. To achieve optimal health outcomes for all, health systems will need to enact structural change that is meaningful, measurable, and rooted in evidence. We describe an antiracism campaign organized into three pillars of focus (Leadership/Employees/Culture, Patient Care Equity, and Community Health and Policy Advocacy) and implemented across Mass General Brigham, a large integrated health system in the northeast of the United States. Our study ranges from the foundational to the aspirational and examples of data-driven areas of focus, programs (e.g., staff education, social risk mitigation, and new models of clinical service), and metrics developed for the health care workforce, patients, and surrounding communities are presented.
Biosketch
Dr. Allison Bryant is the Associate Chief Health Equity Officer for the Mass General Brigham integrated health system, developing and enacting MGB’s United Against Racism campaign and its Health Equity Roadmap. She is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. She received degrees in biology, public health and medicine from Harvard University, where she also completed training in Obstetrics and Gynecology and fellowships in Maternal Fetal Medicine and Minority Health Policy. She previously served as the Vice Chair for Quality, Equity and Safety in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mass General Hospital. Dr. Bryant serves as a member of several regional and national women’s health efforts; among them, the Massachusetts’ Maternal Mortality Review Committee, which she chairs, ACOG’s Clinical Consensus – OB Committee, for which she is Vice Chair, and the Program Committee for the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine’s Annual Pregnancy Meeting.