Sickle cell disease and a pivotal moment to end health inequality

July 15, 2021Garrett SchmittNo Commentshealth equality, health equity, health inequality, health inequity, SDOH, sickle cell, sickle cell disease

Covid-19 laid bare the long-standing vulnerability of minority and low-income communities in U.S. society and its health system even as we celebrated the power of scientific innovation to rein in the pandemic. It’s time to turn that innovation, driven by an even greater mind shift, to end inequality in treatment. In perhaps no condition is…

UN calls for private sector to play its part in beating health inequality

June 9, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsCOVID-19, Data, health inequality, patient access, SDOH, UN

Dr Ahmed El Saeed, Focal Area Lead at the United Nations Global Pulse Finland, Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General, said: “International development is everybody’s business. You can do business and do good, and this is a message to the private sector, there is a very important role for the private sector to play in…

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