This week, we will learn about anti-discrimination laws and policies. We will critically examine how laws and policies help us get closer to racial equity in healthcare while simultaneously critiquing the challenges of legal and policy mechanisms as interventions toward equity goals.

This week, we will learn about intervening at the provider level to address racial inequity. To understand the foundations of provider interventions, we must first have a basic understanding of concepts and definitions we often see associated with provider-level approaches to achieving health equity. We will then critically appraise approaches to intervention with providers.

This week, we will learn about what it means to improve quality and access to healthcare. We first walk through quality improvement and what healthcare systems do from a data collection perspective to improve quality. We will then examine in-depth how healthcare systems utilize non-traditional provider roles within the healthcare team, such as community health workers and enrollment assistants, to improve quality. We will examine what it means for hospitals to improve the health of their surrounding community.

This week, we will learn about the role of anti-racism and reparations in healthcare. In order to take active steps to achieve health equity in healthcare, we must first structure and root our understanding of what anti-racism and reparations means for healthcare.