Equity vs. Equality: Diversity in Healthcare

Dr. Said Ibrahim is the Inaugural Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, Professor of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, and an NIH funded clinical investigator, focusing on unequal health care access and quality among underserved communities. He joins us for a discussion on diversity in healthcare and how it impacts care outcomes and delivery of care. We also cover: (7:56) the big difference between health equity and health equality, (12:06) how implicit bias impacts healthcare and Dr. Singh discovers his own implicit bias, (19:32) achieving a diverse healthcare workforce, (27:03) changing how healthcare is delivered, and (30:15) study results and an interesting example of cultural differences.  Learn more about Dr. Ibrahim here: https://vivo.weill.cornell.edu/display/cwid-sai2009Support the show