Brenda Battle returned to St. Louis to deliver the Homer G. Phillips Public Health Lecture Series keynote address and she offered a stirring message urging the region to reduce its healthcare disparities. The annual event carried the 2023 theme of “Anchoring Communities: A Roadmap to Equity and Transformation in Marginalized Communities.”
Long before scholars began studying racial, social and economic barriers to health care, the Nash family prioritized health equity by caring for the health and well-being of hundreds, if not thousands, of children in the St. Louis area, many of whom were poor and Black. The family’s legacy will be commemorated with the renaming of […]
Guest Speaker Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI, Vice President for Health Equity at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Associate Dean for Health Equity at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, presented the 2020 Homer G. Phillips Lecture at the Eric P. Newman Center on the medical campus on October 25th. Her presentation was titled “Moving from […]