Health Equity Rounds is a solutions-oriented, longitudinal, case-based conference series that aims to confront the effects of bias, racism, and other intersectional systems of oppression on health and healthcare. Similar to a Morbidity and Mortality conference, Health Equity Rounds aims to dissect the “whys” of a clinical story, with the goal of identifying solutions that can improve future care.
Our Impact
Now active at dozens of programs across the country, Health Equity Rounds has catalyzed concrete institutional policy changes as well as engagement in state-level and national advocacy. It has also helped normalize conversations about racism -- it has given people a vocabulary, and served as a conversation-starter and locus for community-building.
HER residents have gone on to present at national meetings and other venues like the AAMC and Joint Commission. Health Equity Rounds conferences have also served as a starting point for residents’ writing with publications in Pediatrics, JAMA Pediatrics, New England Journal of Medicine, and MedEdPortal among top academic publications. Additionally, many former members of our team moving on to fellowship and conducting research and writing NIH career development awards on topics that they first developed interest in through Health Equity Rounds.
Recent Press and Publications
Khazanchi R, Wachman EM, Schiff DM, Modest A, Saia KA, Hsu HE. Mandatory Child Protective Services Reporting for Substance-Exposed Newborns and Peripartum Outcomes: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis. JAMA Pediatr. 2024 May 06. PMID: 38709513.
- Rainer T, Lim JK, He Y, Perdomo J, Nash KA, Kistin CJ, Tolliver DG, McIntyre E, Hsu HE. Structural Racism in Behavioral Health Presentation and Management. Hosp Pediatr. 2023 May 01; 13(5):461-470. PMID: 37066672; PMCID: PMC10714315; DOI: 10.1542/hpeds.2023-007133;.
- Perdomo J, Tolliver D, Hsu HE, He Y, Nash KA, Donatelli S, Mateo C, Akagbosu C, Alizadeh F, Power-Hays A, Rainer T, Zheng DJ, Kistin CJ, Vinci RJ, Michelson CD. Health Equity Rounds: An Interdisciplinary Case Conference to Address Implicit Bias and Structural Racism for Faculty and Trainees. MedEdPORTAL. 2019; 15:10858. View Publication
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- Wang RY, Anand NS, Douglas KE, Gregory JC, Lu N, Pottorff AE, Hsu HE. Formula for a Crisis: Systemic Inequities Highlighted by the US Infant Formula Shortage. Pediatrics. 2024 Jan 01; 153(2). PMID: 38196392; PMCID: PMC10827642; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2023-061910.
- Karim SA, DeCelle MG, Hale AE, Spencer DJ, Zhang YJ, Hsu HE, Ballal SA. Implementing Health Equity Huddles in Pediatric Gastroenterology Inpatient Education. Acad Pediatr. 2023; 23(8):1520-1521. PMID: 37301283.