Health Equity

A commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion is embedded throughout our success plan. By prioritizing health equity across our work, we can support a community of leaders, members and staff and organizational priorities that reflect the diversity and diverse needs of our community.

Explore our equity-focused CME programs:

Bay Area Health Equity Speaker Series featuring Dr. Manchanda and Dr. Iton, and three panel discussions. Recorded May-June 2021
PRIDE in Caregiving: LGBTQ Awareness and Inclusion. Recorded August-September 2021
Upcoming: Physician Leadership - Moving Toward Health Equity and an Anti-Racist Workplace. February 14, 2023

Health Equity Resources

AMA STEPS Forward™ toolkit Racial and Health Equity: Concrete STEPS for Health Systems
AMA STEPS Forward™ toolkit Racial and Health Equity: Concrete STEPS for Smaller Practices

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research – California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)

AMA Educational Resources to Advance Equity

In alignment with its commitment to inform and educate physicians on topics important to health equity, the American Medical Association (AMA) announced in fall 2021 a series of CME and educational activities aimed at addressing the root causes of inequities, including racism and other structural determinants of health. The content – featured on the AMA Ed Hub™ Health Equity Education Center and curated by the AMA’s Center for Health Equity – equips physicians and other learners with core health equity concepts needed to support them as they continue to take action and confront health injustice. Topics include the Prioritizing Equity CME video series:

Prioritizing Equity — The Root Cause: An overview of health equity perspectives from advocates whose work is driven by the mission to address the root cause of health inequity and the social determinants of health.
Prioritizing Equity - Accomplices and Co-Conspirators: How physicians can get actively involved in the fight for racial justice and equity.
Prioritizing Equity - Research and Data for Health Equity: Distinguish health equity data and the challenges of quantifying health inequities and the structural and social determinants of health.
Prioritizing Equity — Trustworthiness & Vaccines: A review of misinformation, trustworthiness, and strategies to handle vaccine hesitancy among patients and health care professionals.
Prioritizing Equity — Mental Health and COVID-19: Covering COVID-19’s immediate and long-term effects on the mental health of minoritized and marginalized communities.

Bay Area-Specific Resources

Government Action

Volunteer Opportunities

City of Berkeley Community Health Commission

Articles & Websites

Miscellaneous

Featured Videos & Webinars

AMA webinar: Impact of Racism on Medicine & Public Health

Aletha Mayank, MD, MPH, AMA's Chief Health Equity Officer and Group Vice President, discusses the roles institutions have played in racism and other forms of oppression and how medical societies can make significant and lasting change.

AMA video series: Prioritizing Equity

The Prioritizing Equity series illuminates how COVID-19 and other determinants of health uniquely impact marginalized communities, public health and health equity, with an eye on both short-term and long-term implication.

Dr. Camara Jones Explains the Cliff of Good Health

We need to address the social determinants of health and equity that protect some people and push others off the cliff. The Urban Institute collaborated with Jones to illustrate her analogy of the cliff of good health.

TED Talk: How Racism Makes Us Sick

In this eye-opening talk, David R. Williams presents evidence for how racism is producing a rigged system -- and offers hopeful examples of programs across the US that are working to dismantle discrimination.

The US Medical System Is Still Haunted by Slavery

Black women's history matters in medicine. The US is the most dangerous industrialized country in which to give birth, and racial disparities in maternal mortality make it even worse for women of color.