Promoting Digital Equity
In this Forum we'll learn what policies could improve digital equity across individuals and communities.
Preserving and bolstering the necessary tools to promote insulin affordability
The fight for prescription drug affordability took a major step forward with enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act. This law aims to curb unsustainably high drug prices by allowing Medicare to negotiate prices with manufacturers for certain drugs and penalize…
Integrated Care Story Series
This series is intended to help health policy and other audiences understand how the elements of Kaiser Permanente's integrated care model combine to support better health and health care.
Maternity Care: How to Address Bias and Increase Cultural Humility
I came across a picture, by the Iranian photographer and artist Bahareh Bisheh, of a little girl, curled up in a fetal position on the ground, laying inside a stick figure of what appeared to be a woman drawn with…
A Journey Home: Transforming Care, Providing Support, Expanding Access
In this Forum we learned what policies could improve our effectiveness at helping people get and stay stably housed, and how to improve the health of individuals and our communities.
To reduce health inequities, clinics need lawyers on the team
Social ills, such as substandard housing and food insecurity, fuel sicknesses that our health care system must then address. What we don't often consider—but should—is that many of these social and structural problems are also legal problems. As such, they may have legal solutions. Health care workers (and health care budgets)…
Long overdue: Addressing black maternal health in the United States
Not long ago, a friend of mine died a week after delivering her baby. As her friend, I was devastated. As an obstetric nurse, I was baffled – my friend was black, over 35 years old, and had a pre-existing…
Building Racial Equity into the Drug Development System: Clinical Trials, Access, and Affordability
This webinar is the second in a two-part series that looks at racial equity in the drug development system, from investment all the way through access. This forum will focus on equity in the patent system, clinical trials, healthcare delivery, and affordability.
Addressing racial disparities in health care delivery (Part 2)
With COVID-19 cases still high and the Biden-Harris administration newly in place, it has never been more important to acknowledge and address racial disparities that are being exacerbated by the pandemic. In a series of blogs and interviews, Kaiser Permanente…
Addressing racial disparities in health care delivery (Part 1)
As the pandemic surges and the nation prepares for a new administration, it has never been more important to acknowledge and address racial disparities that are being exacerbated by COVID-19. In a series of blogs and interviews, Kaiser Permanente leaders…