Health Equity

December 18, 2023

Study examines social factors and cardiovascular disease risk

Eight social factors were among the top 15 markers of cardiovascular disease risk and could help guide community prevention efforts, according to a new study using machine learning algorithms.

By Paul Govern
Rohini Chakravarthy, MD, MBA
December 7, 2023

Rohini Chakravarthy and Jill Berkman join Office of Health Equity

Rohini Chakravarthy, MD, MBA, and Jill Berkman, MD, have joined VUMC’s Office of Health Equity.

By Kathy Whitney
Jennifer Cunningham Erves, PhD, MPH, MAEd, MS, CHES
November 13, 2023

Erves joins VUMC as director of Community Engaged Research

Jennifer Cunningham Erves, PhD, MPH, MAEd, MS, CHES, has joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center as associate professor of Health Policy, director of Community Engaged Research, Office of Health Equity, and scholar, Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research.

By Kathy Whitney
October 31, 2023

Etoi Garrison named Director of Equitable Clinical Outcomes

By VUMC News and Communications
Consuelo Wilkins, MD, MSCI, far left, John Sergent, MD, MACP, MACR, center, and Kimberly Vinson, MD, far right, with award winners Barrington Hwang, MD, left, Stacey Riddick, Adriana Bialostozky, MD, Sarah Reed and Candace Grisham. (photo by Erin O. Smith)
October 27, 2023

Levi Watkins Jr. MD Lecture honors contributors to diversity, equity and inclusion

The Levi Watkins Jr. MD Lecture honored the first African American to graduate from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and recognized the contributions of several Vanderbilt faculty, trainees and students who have made contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion.

By Kathy Whitney
October 25, 2023

VUMC to help engage more study participants in research decisions

The All of Us Engagement Core at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is helping make human research more equitable, inclusive and stronger to accelerate the prevention and treatment of illness through genomic and precision medicine.

By Bill Snyder
October 19, 2023

VUMC initiative to address social drivers of health

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a federal grant to incorporate social drivers of health into adult primary care with the aim of improving outcomes for patients with multiple chronic conditions.
By Bill Snyder
October 18, 2023

Department of Radiology to host third annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Week

The Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt is set to host its third annual Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Week Oct. 23-27
By Jackson Hicks
October 13, 2023

How to overcome mistrust of medical science

A Vanderbilt expert in biomedical ethics says the public’s mistrust of medical science, including vaccination, is being driven in part by a top-down research enterprise that does not give human subjects a voice in the studies that affect them.
By Bill Snyder
October 10, 2023

Study tracks clinical team engagement with health records by patient race/ethnicity

A review of electronic health record user access logs found that EHRs of adult inpatients from minority racial and ethnic populations on average received lower engagement from health care teams than the records of white adult inpatients.
By Paul Govern
September 13, 2023

Office of Health Equity’s Innovation Award winners announced

By VUMC News and Communications
September 12, 2023

Expanded data collection provides a more complete patient story and helps Vanderbilt Health advance health equity

By VUMC News and Communications
September 8, 2023

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