Overcoming the impact of students for Fair Admission v Harvard to build a more representative health care workforce: Perspectives from ending unequal treatment
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Policy Points:- In a recently commissioned report on solutions for eliminating racial and ethnic health care inequities entitled Ending Unequal Treatment, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found a health workforce that is representative of the communities it serves is essential for health care equity.
- The Supreme Court decision to ban race-conscious admission constraints pathways toward health workforce representativeness and equity.
- This paper draws on the National Academies report’s findings that health care workforce representativeness improves care quality, population health, and equity to discuss policy and programmatic options for various participants to promote health workforce representativeness in the context of race-conscious admissions bans.
Full citation:
Guilamo-Ramos V, Thimm-Kaiser M, Benzekri A, Shim RS, Amankwah FK, Rosenbaum S (2024). Overcoming the impact of students for Fair Admission v Harvard to build a more representative health care workforce: Perspectives from ending unequal treatment
Milbank Quarterly [Epub 2024 Oct 3]. doi: 10.1111/1468-0009.12718.